2. Part 4 of Coffee Shop Theology Original Sin: Why It Still Matters

3. Original Sin is:

4. Before we discuss “original sin”, we must come to some points of mutual agreement. 1.Love must involve choices for it to truly exist. 2.You can do or not do anything you want.* (Freewill)

5. Sin is fun, for a season, but...

6. 1.Love must involve choices for it to truly exist. 2.You can do or not do anything you want.* 3.Our every action or non-action involves consequences.

7. For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Psalm 51:1-11

8. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. Psalm 51:1-11 con’t.

9. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Psalm 51:1-11 con’t.

10. Genesis 2:8-9, 3:1-24

11. We are all imperfect people; we are raised by imperfect parents, in imperfect families We live in an imperfect world and we interact with imperfect people daily. What could possible lead us to believe that the answers to life’s challenges come from within?

12. 4. Adam and Eve’s motivation in sinning is the same as ours today. a.Arrogance - b.Pride - c.Rebellion d.Self-determinism I know better than you. I can do better than you

13. You are not your own; you were bought at price. I Corinthians 6:19b-20

14. 4. Adam and Eve’s motivation in sinning is the same as ours today. a.Arrogance – b.Pride - c.Rebellion d.Self-determinism e.We become our own Gods (God-like vs. Christ-like)

15. 5. Original sin pre-wired us to sin (but we turn-on the switch).

16. 6. Since Adam and Eve sinned, God has been in the restoration business.

17. God’s grace is much bigger than absolutely any sin we have committed. In what area of your life do you need to be restored? We need to choose to be restored.