#118 Did St. Augustine Invent The Doctrine of Original Sin Because He Had Sexual Issues?
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 22 August 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Ken Samples, an expert on St. Augustine and all things Original Sin, joins me to respond to the 5 most significant claims against the doctrine of Original Sin argued by Progressive Christians. Professor Samples will answer the following claims: 1. St. Augustine made up Original Sin to explain his personal sexual hangups. 2. Jesus never heard of Original Sin 3. Original Sin is a Greco-Roman idea imported into Christianity 4. Original Shame/Original Blessing/Original Goodness are better explanations of human sin 5. Inherited sinfulness is not one of the curses on Adam and Eve in Genesis
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| 0:00.0 | I don't think that Augustine is creating original sin and light of his own psychological |
| 0:07.4 | foibles. |
| 0:08.5 | I think he is moving to the text. |
| 0:11.0 | And by the way, he wrote more than 5 million words and he has more than 40,000 citations |
| 0:18.6 | or references to scripture. |
| 0:37.6 | Welcome to the Alisa Childers Podcast. |
| 0:40.7 | Our humans born basically sinful or basically good. |
| 0:44.6 | This is a topic that divides one of the topics that divides progressive Christians from |
| 0:49.5 | historic Christians. |
| 0:50.5 | It all has to do with the doctrine of original sin. |
| 0:54.1 | And today I'm going to be talking with a theologian about original sin and we're going |
| 0:58.5 | to be interacting with some of the objections we see coming from people who identify themselves |
| 1:04.6 | as progressive Christians. |
| 1:06.2 | So my guess today is Ken Samples who is the senior research scholar for reasons to believe. |
| 1:12.6 | He also lectures for the Master of Arts program in Christian apologetics at Biola University. |
| 1:18.9 | He's a theologian who's written several books and in his work at reasons to believe he |
| 1:23.8 | focuses on showing how Christianity's great doctrinal truths are compatible with reasons. |
| 1:29.8 | So Ken, it's so great to have you on the show today. |
| 1:32.0 | Welcome. |
| 1:33.2 | Thank you, Alisa. |
| 1:34.2 | It's a pleasure to be with you. |
| 1:35.6 | Well, I wanted to do a podcast like this for a really long time because in my research |
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