Here is the start of a series on sin from Theology Unpluggd. the formal name for the study of “sin” in theology is hamartiology.
Imputed Sin (Part 1) [Podcast]
I was looking at a book earlier, Whatever Became of Sin?, and I think every generation has their challenges to the notion of sin, and the understanding of sin. And we’re going to talk about the aspects of sin during this series, the different theological ways in which we talk about sin, and often we’ll use fancy terms that I think we need to explain and we need to understand the challenges of each. But we’ve got concepts such as imputed sin, inherited sin, personal sin, and each one of these has a broad range of, not only challenges, but just difficulties when it comes to it. I’ve got some difficulties that I’m going to bring up and get real unplugged with you guys, and see what you guys can do about it because Ineed some answers about some of this stuff……
Imputed Sin (Part 2) [Podcast]
Well, last time I ended with a difficulty that I think both of you guys thought we’d closed out on, but I had to extend on it a little bit, because I was talking about Pelagiu
s’ problem with imputed sin: the idea that we’re held guilty, the gavel has been struck for every individual upon conception, because of Adam’s sin, and we are held guilty, directly, for Adam’s sin. And the passages that I referred to were from Ezekiel and from Jeremiah, where it talks about, in the Old Testament, people were acting as if their problems, and their condemnation, and their…the issues that they have in their own life are because of what their fathers did, and they’re getting punished for it. And the phrase becomes so common, we find it both in Jeremiah and in Ezekiel, and did you say you found it somewhere else,
What is the difference between original sin and imputed sin?
“he terms “original sin” and “imputed sin” refer to the two main effects that Adam’s sin had on the human race.” –
What is the biblical evidence for the imputation of Adam’s Sin?
The doctrine of the imputation of Adam’s sin means that when Adam first sinned, that sin (and its blame) was rightly regarded by God to be our sin as well.