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The only inheritance everyone gets whether they want it or not.
means The theological idea that humanity is born already tainted by a primal wrongdoing, inherited rather than individually earned.
from Rooted in the Genesis story of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit, but the actual doctrine of 'original sin' as inherited guilt was formalized in Latin Christian theology, most famously argued by Augustine, who read Adam's fall as a condition passed down through generations like a genetic flaw — the term itself is a theological construction, not a Biblical phrase, built to explain why sin seems universal before anyone's done anything wrong.
- origin
- Augustine named it, not the Bible itself
- jewish view
- no equivalent doctrine, humans born morally neutral
- the irony
- the sin was curiosity, punished with self-awareness
- fine print
- inherited guilt for someone else's apple decision