Scott asked me the other day what I thought about original sin. I told him that I did not buy into the Calvinist view of Original Sin, but that I knew that Wesleyan theology held to Original Sin but that we are still able to accept the gift of Salvation with free will. Not a very good answer, I know, but I was being honest. I think one view is foolish and unfounded, I know of another view which seems more palpable, but in the end, I have sinned and OS doesn’t really matter to me. It’s worth noting that I come from, though am no longer a part of, a denomination that has historically denied the doctrine.

But, as I was doing some fact-checking on McLaren’s sections on Romans, I came across this passage on Paul and Original Sin…