“Behold... Behold...”

 Since Augustine in the fifth century there has been misdirected fascination with the concept of Original Sin, a concept influenced by Augustine’s time as a follower of Manichaeism and afterward neo-Platonism (i.e., Greek philosophies and not Bible teachings). This misdirection finds its full voice in John Calvin in the sixteenth century and in the doctrine of Hereditary Total Depravity. Today, the overwhelming majority of people who consider themselves Christia...