This bogus concept states that when Adam and Eve sinned in the garden as they ate the forbidden fruit, they died spiritually (got separated from God) and that this death was automatically passed on to ...

Last week, I waxed rhapsodic about what the Jewish community could learn from megachurches. As communal institutions, they are far more spiritually-focused, inspiring, diverse, well-managed, and ...

In the early ’70s, world-renowned psychiatrist Dr. Karl Menninger wrote the book “Whatever Became of Sin?” This was on the heels of the social and political upheaval of the 1960s and he chronicled how ...

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Few theological concepts are as mangled and misinterpreted as the concept of sin. Yet we find the subject off-putting. We don’t understand it well because we prefer not to discuss it. Growing up, many ...

What is sin? There are various views and concepts of sin. Many people see themselves as naturally good, others see sin as an illusion or misconception, and still others only as an act and not a state.

Sooner or later someone always says something along those lines when talking about grace, don’t they? I mean, sometimes it’s me. In a certain sense we can’t talk about grace without talking about sin.

Islam and Judaism both agree that the Christian belief in ‘original sin’ is an overly negative and pessimistic evaluation of human beings who were made by God. The Qur’an and the Torah both teach that ...