Moral Miracles and the Incoherence of Original Sin

Abstract

The incoherence of original sin follows from the impossibility of moral miracles such as human nature being made sinful without any other change, from the incoherence of making someone sinful as punishment, and from the dependence of our opinion of God’s morality on human morality. Physical miracles can be untrue but coherent, as when God overrides natural law and parts the Red Sea. Original Sin was Christian recruitment strategy because the only escape was confessing to Christ and thus becoming a Christian.