Adam was not created with Original Sin. Adam and Eve were created with free will.
There were not rules in the garden, there was only one prohibition.
It is interesting, in that light, that given the choice, mankind would choose to disobey.
It leads me to conclude that no matter how God structures the rules or "rule" in this case, free will will choose to disobey...and blame God for it.
Georgia Boy,
I don't think I've debated you on this topic before. Regarding the Book of Genesis, do you interpret it in as literal or figurative truth?
I interpret it as both. I try to apply the same literary criticism as I would any other literary text. For instance, Jesus said, "I am the door..." Is he literally a door? Of course not. However, in another place He says, "No man comes to the Father but by me." So, is he the door to the Father in a literal sense? Yes.
I do not see Genesis as a book attempting to set forth scientific fact. It is an introduction, "In the beginning, God..." And a book of "types and shadows" of the one (Jesus) who was to come.
Your quotes from John make a nice illustration.
Now you do not see Genesis as scientific fact, so lets walk through the implications as it relates to Original Sin.
If the events as portrayed in Genesis are not a historical fact, there is no Adam and Eve, there is no Garden, there is no tree, and hence there is not alleged theft of a single apple for which the entirety of humanity can be blamed for, for the whole of eternity. Without a literal reading of that portion of Genesis, Original Sin goes away, because it never happened.
