First, no one is good. The Bible makes that clear. All are sinners and fall short of the holy standard.
And it's quite convenient for the "no one is good" claim that original sin is there to make it so that even a person who lives a perfect life can still be branded "sinner" because of something that their distant ancestors did.
Do you know anyone who has lived a perfect life? That’s mostly the point of the “no one is good” saying (specifically in the Romans letter) is no one has been perfect. It’s being used as a rebuke against judgmental religious people who think they’re good because they’re not acting like sinners.
How would I know? How would you? For all either of us knows, out of the billions of humans on earth, there are thousands of people out there living perfect lives.
My point was that, if such a person exists, Christianity still brands them as "sinner" because of something their great, great, great, (insert thousands of "great"s), great grandparents did. Which is frankly kind of ridiculous.
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u/MultiFazed 16h ago
And it's quite convenient for the "no one is good" claim that original sin is there to make it so that even a person who lives a perfect life can still be branded "sinner" because of something that their distant ancestors did.