Set Apart In Christ

During a meeting this morning my wife and I exchanged a brief conversation between ourselves. It went a little something like this… Adam: “I really need to go to the toilet.” Megan: “You should have gone beforehand” Adam: (With a smug smile because I knew that’s exactly what my wife would say) “You’re so predictable.” Megan: (With lightening quick wit) “So are you.” I’ll return to this momentarily. Richard Dawkins writes the following in The God Delusion The sin of Adam and Eve is thought to have passed down the male line – transmitted in the semen according to Augustine. What kind of ethical philosophy is it that condemns every child, even before it is born, to inherit the sin of a remote ancestor? Augustine, by the way, who rightly regarded himself as something of a personal authority on sin, was responsible for coining the phrase ‘original sin’. Before him it was known as ‘ancestral sin’. Augustine’s pronouncements and debates epitomize, for me, the unhealthy preoccupati...