Original Sin
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doctrine of original sin · original sin · the old doctrine of original sin
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
A theological doctrine invoked, apart from its religious origin, to explain the persistence of self-interest in human nature.
The old doctrine of original sin may be totally disconnected from the tale of Eve and her apple, or any other religious tradition or theological dogma, but it represents an undeniable fact which neither a statesman nor a preacher can venture to ignore.
Common Sense
The theological doctrine that Adam's sin bound all his descendants, used as the only available parallel for hereditary succession's binding of all posterity
for to say that the right of all future generations is taken away by the act of the first Electors in their choice not only of a King, but of a family of Kings for ever, hath no parallel in or out of scripture but the doctrine of original sin, which supposes the free-will of all men lost in Adam: