Original Sin: Is Christ Consciousness Enough For the Atonement?

Original sin is a term that describes the fall of Adam. By understanding original sin we will also gain insight into the legal implications of his sin. We will learn just what man needs in order to be reconciled to God.

 

The results of the fall of Adam were many and numerous. Death entered into the world through sin and sin began to reign in our flesh. Reconciliation with God was made impossible by our own efforts. Our obedience to God would now be tainted with the stain of a selfish nature, a nature that was endowed with the propensity to sin. Because of original sin, standing before a holy law and a holy God became wholly unthinkable. Yet our greatest need was not simply a moral regeneration. Although a renewed way of thinking and being is the fruit of our reconciliation to God, our greatest need is freedom from the legal guilt we inherited from Adam. The only way to be set free from our legal predicament in sin is through the imputed righteousness of Christ. The record of God’s life must stand perfect and spotless before the holy law of God in our place. Man needs much more than a change of consciousness, we needed the life of God’s dear Son to take the punishment of our guilt and impute into our accounts His enduring life.

The deception of the New Age philosophy of Christ consciousness is that it does not realize our legal predicament in sin. Christ consciousness believes that man can become one with God through a change of mind, a renewed way of thinking and the development of new habits. But such a solution does not dissipate the most obvious challenge to our supposed “oneness” with God, which is the sentence of death. Every man is under its dominion. And there is no man, no technology or wealth that can free us from its power. The only atonement that will clear man from the guilt of original sin, which we inherited from Adam, is the imputed righteousness of Christ. It is through the justification that we receive by faith that man is made One with His redeemer.

When we begin to understand the issue of original sin and our legal predicament under the original sin of Adam, we will begin to see the necessity of an atonement that only God can provide. When we understand our bondage under our legal guilt, we will begin to know just how futile a reformed life is without the merits of Christ’s righteousness applied to our offering. Justification by faith and the imputed righteousness of Christ become the sweetest words to fall upon human ears. For our Redeemer has paid our debts in full.

There are many denominations that have varying beliefs in regard to original sin and we explore both the Catholic and Seventh-Day Adventists perspectives. We also give you the mainstream protestant view of original sin and explore both our legal and moral guilt that we have inherited from Adam’s original sin.

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