Sin As Anti-Creation Summary
Sin as Anti-Creation Cornelius Plantinga Jr. defines sin as “a disruption of created harmony and then resistance to divine restoration of that harmony” and says “sin disrupts and resists the vital human relation to God, and it does all this disruption and resisting in a number of intertwined ways”(Plantinga). He seems to believe that anything that goes against creation, what is known as anti-creation, is an act of sin because it interrupts the order and bonds that God put in this world during creation. In creation, God purposefully and strategically “bound humans to creation as the caretaker of it, to himself as bearers of his image, and to each other as perfect complements”(Plantinga 29). If you think about it, most sin in this world can
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Plantinga also says that anti-creation began with the original sin by Eve which broke her bond to God because she wanted to be like God, knowing good from evil, which only alienated her from God and set her apart from the rest of creation. Plantinga included a quote in this paragraph which read “even the good and fruitful earth becomes their foe” (Gen. 3:17-18). The breaking of her bonds between herself and God and creation was the first sin, or act of anti-creation which caused the “downfall of humanity”. Most sins that humans commit today can also be classified as a breaking of one of these bonds. Say you dishonor your mother or father, which breaks the bond with God by poorly demonstrating Gods image and the one with other humans by not acting as that human’s “perfect complement”. Another interesting idea that Plantinga brings about is that human nature has been tainted by corruption and continues to taint as a result of this corruption. He says that corruption is “a dynamic motif in the Christian understanding of sin: it is not so much a particular sin as the multiplying power of all sin to spoil a good creation and to breach it’s defenses against invaders”(Plantinga 32). This is basically saying that corruption is not one sin, it is the continuous sum of all sin
Plantinga also says that anti-creation began with the original sin by Eve which broke her bond to God because she wanted to be like God, knowing good from evil, which only alienated her from God and set her apart from the rest of creation. Plantinga included a quote in this paragraph which read “even the good and fruitful earth becomes their foe” (Gen. 3:17-18). The breaking of her bonds between herself and God and creation was the first sin, or act of anti-creation which caused the “downfall of humanity”. Most sins that humans commit today can also be classified as a breaking of one of these bonds. Say you dishonor your mother or father, which breaks the bond with God by poorly demonstrating Gods image and the one with other humans by not acting as that human’s “perfect complement”. Another interesting idea that Plantinga brings about is that human nature has been tainted by corruption and continues to taint as a result of this corruption. He says that corruption is “a dynamic motif in the Christian understanding of sin: it is not so much a particular sin as the multiplying power of all sin to spoil a good creation and to breach it’s defenses against invaders”(Plantinga 32). This is basically saying that corruption is not one sin, it is the continuous sum of all sin