Original Sin or Ancestral Sin?

A nearly universal assumption we make as human beings is that we can do right and wrong things, good and evil things. This article isn’t about the basis for determining “right” or “wrong,” or “good” and “evil,” but about the human predicament we all find ourselves in: Why do we sin? The Christian scriptures offer a […]

The Fall: Adam and Eve, You and Me, and God’s Persistence

In the fall of Adam and Eve, humans stopped trusting God’s goodness, and they made their own decisions about what was right and wrong. Yet God continued pursuing the hearts of his image bearers…. Though they had been given the world and the privilege of being God’s image-bearers, Adam and Eve disobeyed a simple command […]