Robert S. Harvey writing at Education Week.
As schools fumble to talk about America’s original sin—racism—well-meaning white teachers (and some Black folks) often assume that cultural relevance equals applauding individual progress.
You schmuck. I hate nothing worse than people pretending to be something they’re not.
Jesus was a good man and great example – countries can have original sin – God loves everyone and we’re all just brothers and sisters in the family of God – and so on with the claptrap.
If you believe those things you’re not a Christian. Jesus is God (No, He didn’t become a god because of his obedience or anything else – He was always God). Countries cannot have original sin. Jesus was clear in John 8:44-45.
Original sin has to do with the federal headship of Adam. The WCF.
I. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtilty and temptations of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin, God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory.
II. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion, with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body.
III. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed; and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.
IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.
And I’ve been clear.
” … the Biblical doctrine is, as Deuteronomy 24:16 makes clear, one of individual responsibility … guilt cannot be shifted to others or passed on to the people around a man. Guilt is non-transferable; a disposition or nature can be inherited, but not guilt.”
One man’s sin does not redound to another man’s sin. And no, I’m not going to give anyone “reparations.”
So if you believe any of these false doctrines, call yourself something other than a Christian.
And to Mr. Harvey, you’re an impostor. Stop [mis]appropriating my theology. I don’t appreciate it at all.