Gerald Shugart delves in to approach a subject that has been much debated since the Reformation.Once again, author Gerald B. Shugart questions, analyzes and then counters another commonly held Biblical presupposition. Mr. Shugart uses his vast Biblical study experience to approach a subject that is only rarely completely considered by individuals in Christianity.This time, he guides the reader through the subject of "original sin". He presents information and instruction vital to better understand the subject and its historical genesis.Shugart doesn't allow pre-conceived theories within Christianity to get in his way as he opens the lid on a controversial subject which has lead to the false teaching that all people emerge from the womb totally corrupted and dead spiritually as a result of Adam's first sin.

America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin. "It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading Christian activist Jim Wallis. Fifty years ago, Wallis was driven away from his faith by a white church that considered dealing with racism to be taboo. His participation in the civil rights movement brought him back when he discovered a faith that commands racial justice. Yet as recent tragedies confirm, we continue to suffer from the legacy of racism. The old patterns of white privilege are colliding with the changing demographics of a diverse nation. The church has been slow to respond, and Sunday morning is still the most segregated hour of the week. In America's Original Sin, Wallis offers a prophetic and deeply personal call to action in overcoming the racism so ingrained in American society. He speaks candidly to Christians--particularly white Christians--urging them to cross a new bridge toward racial justice and healing. Whenever divided cultures and gridlocked power structures fail to end systemic sin, faith communities can help lead the way to grassroots change. Probing yet positive, biblically rooted yet highly practical, this book shows people of faith how they can work together to overcome the embedded racism in America, galvanizing a movement to cross the bridge to a multiracial church and a new America.

What is injury and can be dealt with through ordinary means? And what is insult and must be opposed, with violence, if necessary. A college basketball player whose family was cheated out of its wealth takes no action against the family who swindled them. Yet, when a dinner served at their table is poisoned, she is charged with the crime and the detectives must find evidence to acquit her of the charges. The solution lies in Edgar Allan Poe's opening line of A Cask of Amontillado "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I bore as best I could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge." How can they solve a case when they believe that their client is guilty?

In his De peccato originali (1679), Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716) presented his thesis that sex was the original sin and a vital part of human nature. Building on contemporary insights into the history of the text of the Bible, he criticised the hypocritical attitudes among the religious and social elite of his day concerning the biblical text and sexual morality. The work became notorious in the seventeenth century and led to its author’s banishment. In the eighteenth century, it exerted considerable influence on the way in which many in Europe came to see sexuality. This annotated edition with English translation also includes a comprehensive introduction that includes a contextualization of the De peccato originali and its impact.

God did not send His son Jesus Christ into the world to punish man or to send man to hell fire for opening the door for sin to enter into the world, in the same vain, God did not send His son into the world to come and destroy the world because it has been infested with sin, rather God sent His son into the world to take away sin from the world that man might be saved from the consequences of sin (death) In this book, you will understand that Our sins are eternally forgiven because God is rich in grace. God does not depend on man to forgive man, God did not wait for man to ask for forgiveness before He forgave, God did not wait for man to forgive those who sin against him before He could forgive man. God forgave man first hand because He is rich in grace. Other exciting exegesis you will find in this book includes: The Genesis of the Offense that needed Forgiveness The Simplicity that is in Christ in the forgiveness of offenses The Jealousy of God that leads to repentance Debunking the Myth of Original Sin/ the Sin of Adam How Sin Kidnapped Man & How God Paid the Ransom for Man's Release. ‬‬ These and many more concepts are discussed in this book concerning the eternal forgiveness that God offers man and how you can translate same forgiveness towards others around you as an expression of God's love. Happy reading!

A collection of seventeen essays presenting theological perspectives on children throughout history. Discusses the care of children, their spiritual education, and the role of parents, the church, and the state in raising children.

Arguing against the conventional view--that the incest taboo developed in response to the act of incest--The Original Sin presents biological and anthropological evidence to demonstrate the innate avoidance of incest as a feature of pre-cultural organization. Arens shows how the taboo evolved as a unique human social mechanism to control the practice among certain social classes, thus drawing the conclusion that incest, rather than its prohibition, is the cultural invention. Arens directly confronts the origin and definition of incest while seeking to uncover the particular and general meaning of this negative form of behavior.

The master key to unlock your financial, mental, and emotional jail cell is within this hard-hitting book. Bestselling author and TrulyRichClub founder Bo Sanchez will tell you why and how you can get out of your prison of fear that has kept you stagnant in your finances, career, business, and even other parts of your life. First, he clarifies a core misunderstanding about God–that “He doesn’t run a fruit store but a seed store.” Diving deeper, Bo explains this beautiful mystery he calls “irrational generosity,”which creates multiplied miracles in your financial life as well as in other dimensions. Through Limitless, Bo will teach you how to get out of your comfort zone, enter your courage zone, and with God, cocreate your abundant destiny–not for your own empire but for His kingdom.

Western civilization was for centuries held together by the glue of Christianity, the religion founded upon the teachings and actions of Jesus -- to the extent that it may be possible to infer them from the written record. This book has grown out of the conviction that the methods of history in particular and of the sciences secondarily have not been applied forcefully enough to an investigation of Jesus. We will scrutinize this written record and see how much we actually know.This book is in part a confession - a literary genre that goes back to Augustine, bishop of Hippo in North Africa and Catholic saint. Yet my agenda differs from his. Augustine lived at a time when the Christian Church was beginning to flex its muscles and make bold claims. Today we live in the twilight of the gods, to borrow the title of one of Friedrich Nietzsche's last works. Religion as a general construct peaked long ago, probably before the Enlightenment, and is now in retreat. This period of decline and demise makes essential at long last a realistic treatment of Jesus of Nazareth.As an Italian by birth and upbringing, the author was early baptized into the Catholic Church. Then, his mother died at age 43. He was 15 years old himself, at the time, and didn't know how to reconcile the notion of a good, just, loving God with such a tragedy.Seeking to know whether the Jesus of the written records can withstand the scrutiny of the sciences and history, he eventually found what is the most probative way of examining Jesus, a task that forms the core of this book. A very long time ago, humans had little more than faith to guide them. Chris does not write for that mindset but aims to entertain other methods of understanding what we call reality, with the sciences, philosophy, and history as our guides. He hopes that their rigor will appeal to those who remain intellectually curious and open-minded.