Here’s Kallistos Ware: The doctrine of original sin means…that we are born into an environment where it is easy to do evil and hard to do good; easy to hurt others, and hard to heal their wounds; easy to arouse men’s suspicions, and hard to win their trust. It means that we are each of us conditioned by the solidarity of the human race in its accumulated wrong-doing and wrong-thinking, and hence wrong-being. And to this accumulation of wrong we have ourselves added by our own deliberate acts of sin. The gulf grows wider and wider.[35]
Nope. The doctrine of original sin teaches that we all “were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind” (Ephesians 2:3) and “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. … There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Romans 3:10-12, 18
