The Original Sin Analysis
2.5. The original sin
“Deliver us from evil" (Mt 6: 13)
A light on the question of evil, so often obscured today, comes from the truth of the faith on original sin: man, departing from God by his own free will, experiences internal disruption, because the separation from the Father who gives life condemns him for this very fact to death. This is what the Second Vatican Council teaches us in this regard: «What divine revelation makes known to us agrees with experience. Examining his heart, man finds that he has inclinations toward evil too, and is engulfed by manifold ills which cannot come from his good Creator. Often refusing to acknowledge God as his beginning, man has disrupted also his proper relationship to his own ultimate goal as well as his whole relationship toward himself and others and all created things. Therefore man is split within himself. As a result, all of human life, whether individual or collective, shows itself to be a dramatic struggle between good and evil, between light and darkness. Indeed, man finds that by himself he is incapable of battling the assaults of evil successfully, so that everyone feels as though he is bound by chains» (Gaudium et Spes, no. 13). Since man finds himself in a state of disharmony due to the original sin, even …show more content…
It is this kind of disinterested and free service that makes every ecclesial action, even the most simple and humble, a living and effective manifestation of Trinitarian love: «You see the Trinity if you see love … because the Three are: he that loves, and that which is loved, and love» (St. Augustine, De Trinitate, VIII, 12,
“Deliver us from evil" (Mt 6: 13)
A light on the question of evil, so often obscured today, comes from the truth of the faith on original sin: man, departing from God by his own free will, experiences internal disruption, because the separation from the Father who gives life condemns him for this very fact to death. This is what the Second Vatican Council teaches us in this regard: «What divine revelation makes known to us agrees with experience. Examining his heart, man finds that he has inclinations toward evil too, and is engulfed by manifold ills which cannot come from his good Creator. Often refusing to acknowledge God as his beginning, man has disrupted also his proper relationship to his own ultimate goal as well as his whole relationship toward himself and others and all created things. Therefore man is split within himself. As a result, all of human life, whether individual or collective, shows itself to be a dramatic struggle between good and evil, between light and darkness. Indeed, man finds that by himself he is incapable of battling the assaults of evil successfully, so that everyone feels as though he is bound by chains» (Gaudium et Spes, no. 13). Since man finds himself in a state of disharmony due to the original sin, even …show more content…
It is this kind of disinterested and free service that makes every ecclesial action, even the most simple and humble, a living and effective manifestation of Trinitarian love: «You see the Trinity if you see love … because the Three are: he that loves, and that which is loved, and love» (St. Augustine, De Trinitate, VIII, 12,