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What does it mean to be born with original sin?

This is something that, by the way, I know I keep referencing my interview with Spencer Claven,

but we've had these two great God talks here on Timeless this week.

And so I feel like I've been immersed in this.

But I was talking about this with Spencer Claven.

And one of the things I said was that the whole idea of original sin confuses me a bit

because I understand that Adam and Eve, or should I say Eve and Adam,

because Eve was the first one, succumbed to temptation.

They disobeyed God and that is a sin.

And I do believe that you have responsibility for your actions and you can't blame anyone else for decisions you make that are not the decisions that you should have made.

But God, A, gave Adam and Eve the proclivity to sin.

They gave them the the proclivity to succumb to temptation. And also, God created the serpent

and put the serpent in the garden. And we know God created the serpent because the line in Genesis

is the serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild beasts who the Lord God had created. So God

put the serpent in the garden to tempt them.

So again, I'm of two minds about this because I know that they disobeyed God, but another part of

me asks, is it really fair to say that it's an original sin if they were in this kind of

innocent state in the Garden of Eden? They had this temptation, which was put there by God, and they were in this kind of innocent state in the Garden of Eden, they had this temptation,

which was put there by God, and they were given the proclivity to succumb to it, can we really

fully blame them and say that this is this catastrophic, sinful event that forever tarnished humanity?

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