We Muslims dont believe original sin. In our religion everybody birth guiltless.
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Unrighteousness is often spoken of in Scripture as something belonging to the human race as a whole. In the Bible, the story begins in a Garden where God and humans live together. And in this Garden grow two trees. The first tree represents God's own life and creative power that is made available to others--The Tree of Life. But on the way to the Tree of Life, humans must pass by another tree--The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. And God said that eating from this tree will kill you.
"And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
How does it do that? This tree represents taking the authority to do what is good in your own eyes. When humans do that, it leads to broken relationships, violence, and death. Now here's the thing, both trees are beautiful, but one of them is a false tree of life. And the humans take from this false tree of life, and thus begin humanity's downward spiral into sin.
Original sin is the concept that every human being, since the beginning, is inclined to seize the opportunity to define what is good for themselves, apart from God. In Psalm 14:2–3 we read: “The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.” Jeremiah 17:9 says that “the heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it?” This seems to assume original sin — wickedness is a property of the human heart. If the human heart is sinful, then human nature is corrupt, and if that is so, then even infants are corrupt because they are human. And if infants are corrupt, then this is the same as saying that we are born corrupt — which means we are born with original sin
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It's a bullshit marketing gimmick the early Church came up with to guilt people into converting. By definition, sin requires moral agency, and you can't have moral agency for something that happened thousands of years before you were born.
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