Hill, Clouser, & Murphy on Original Sin (Diving Deeper, Oct 2021)

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Diving Deeper is a monthly series of Zoom discussions for ASA members and their friends to think more deeply about an article or book review published in the ASA journal, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith. https://network.asa3.org/page/DivingD...

This month's discussion focuses on three articles on Original Sin from our September 2021 issue: https://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2021/PS...

Carol A. Hill, "Original Sin with Respect to Science, Origins, Historicity of Genesis, and Traditional Church Views"

In the matter of origins, the anthropological and DNA evidence shows that Homo sapiens dates from ca. 200,000 YBP (Years Before the Present) in Africa and humans migrated around the world from Africa starting at ca. 60,000 YBP. By ~10,000 YBP humans are known to have practiced agriculture and husbandry in the Near East, with Genesis 4:2 placing Adam and Eve in the Ubaid archeological period (~5000 BC) in southern Mesopotamia. This evidence brings up the seemingly insurmountable problem of how sin could have been biologically transmitted by Adam and Eve to the entire human race as in the Augustinian doctrine of original sin. This paper is the first of three consecutive articles on different aspects of original sin. The first two (Hill and Clouser) are each dependent on the other: Hill's article describes the science related to origins, historicity, and traditional church views; Clouser's article theologically supports Hill's proposals that Adam and Eve were not the first humans, but that they were real people. The third article (Murphy) deals pastorally with the origin of original sin.

Roy Clouser, "Three Theological Arguments in Support of Carol Hill's Reading of the Historicity of Genesis and Original Sin"

This article offers three theological buttresses for the immediately preceding article by Carol Hill. Information about and from Genesis and Romans is presented that I think will be new to most readers. Several of the most important points are drawn from Jewish sources which I think Catholic and Protestant commentators have overlooked to their detriment. Ignoring these sources has produced needless, grievous troubles for scripture interpretation—especially for Genesis.

George Murphy, "The Twofold Character of Original Sin in the Real World"

The topic of original sin in the context of theology-science discussions has, quite naturally, tended to focus on how this condition might have originated in view of scientific knowledge about early humanity. But that is only one aspect of the doctrine. What is really important for most people is the question of what original sin means today. Here that aspect of the doctrine is considered from a pastoral perspective first. Then I review and clarify what I have suggested in earlier publications about the origins of original sin.

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