Ruether has shown us that “the heritage of fantasies of world destruction as divine judgment of human evil and at some realities of our actual destructiveness of the earth and its beings” (Ruether 115). Many people in this time lack self-consciousness that allows humans “to stand out from their environment and imagine better alternatives, in relations to which both the natural world and humans society are lacking” (Ruether 115). This paper will explore the three various views of sin and explain how it has impacted society and the earth today.
The first view of sin is called “Hebrew views of Evil” (Ruether 116). You can see that human history had fallen to evil power a couple of times that is biased to human nature and society. Throughout the Hebrew and the Talmud scriptures, Jewish people “did not accept the concept of …show more content…
Christianity views Jewish and Greek ethical relationships as evil; Christians say that that evil is located in the freedom of a human's will and any refusal against God, and in ontology of mortal beings. St. Paul laid the foundations of concept of sin and evil, the foundations told place in the fourth-century in Latin theologian, Augustine. St. Paul theology was basic “on a profound dualism between two modes of existence: existence according to the flesh, which he characterizes as a state of slavery to sin and death, and existence in the Spirit, which he sees as the christian, through their rebirth in Christ, both to virtuous and loving life and also to promise of immortality” (Ruether 127). One Problem St. Paul had with his theology was that he identifies evil condition with natural/creating life. In the first chapter of Romans, St. Paul declares that nature and God’s will are known through the creation nature saying they are good. But as said by St. Paul that all have chosen to do evil, so our God had given us up to an evil and deluded
The first view of sin is called “Hebrew views of Evil” (Ruether 116). You can see that human history had fallen to evil power a couple of times that is biased to human nature and society. Throughout the Hebrew and the Talmud scriptures, Jewish people “did not accept the concept of …show more content…
Christianity views Jewish and Greek ethical relationships as evil; Christians say that that evil is located in the freedom of a human's will and any refusal against God, and in ontology of mortal beings. St. Paul laid the foundations of concept of sin and evil, the foundations told place in the fourth-century in Latin theologian, Augustine. St. Paul theology was basic “on a profound dualism between two modes of existence: existence according to the flesh, which he characterizes as a state of slavery to sin and death, and existence in the Spirit, which he sees as the christian, through their rebirth in Christ, both to virtuous and loving life and also to promise of immortality” (Ruether 127). One Problem St. Paul had with his theology was that he identifies evil condition with natural/creating life. In the first chapter of Romans, St. Paul declares that nature and God’s will are known through the creation nature saying they are good. But as said by St. Paul that all have chosen to do evil, so our God had given us up to an evil and deluded