Original Sin and Original Death: Romans 5:12–19
To what extent is mankind born sinful? Any biblical attempt to answer this question must properly deal with Romans 5:12-19.
The Necessity of Believing in a Historical Adam
Rejecting a historical Adam leads to an avalanche of theological problems. The creation account is inerrant history, not poetry, historical fiction, or mythology.
C.S. Lewis on Sin & Punishment
What would C.S. Lewis say if you asked him about sin? Can we “love the sinner but hate the sin? And should we punish sinners who break the law . . . or merely rehabilitate them?
4.7 Stephen Wellum, David Schrock, Trent Hunter • Interview • “Where Would We Be Without Genesis 3? Understanding the Significance of Sin”
Listen in as David Schrock and Trent Hunter interview Stephen Wellum on his Christ Over All essay: “Where Would We Be Without Genesis 3? Understanding the Significance of Sin”
“Give What You Command, and Then Command Whatever You Will”: Augustine, Pelagius, and the Question of Original Sin
No debate in the history of the church has been more important for the doctrine of sin than the debate between Augustine and Pelagius
Minimized Corruption: A Roman Catholic Theology of Sin
What happens when mercy, at the expense of sin, becomes ingrained as the central message of the Bible? We find out in Rome’s story.
Talking about Sin is Hard: Its Covenantal Background and the Challenge of Modernity
We are not merely “broken”; we are “wicked.” The former language minimizes our culpability and takes away from the legal and covenantal responsibility.
What is the New Nature and Old Nature?
How do we understand what happens when a person goes from the old man to the new man in Christ?
Where Would We Be Without Genesis 3? Understanding the Significance of Sin
Genesis 3 alone gives us the only true explanation of our problem along with the Bible’s glorious solution in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Planting a Graveyard: Seven Reasons Churches Should Recover an Ancient Practice
Graveyards remind, inform, testify, illustrate, demonstrate, and practically help the church to live so that we might one day be raised with Christ out of the ground.
Christ is Lord Over Death: A Case for Burial Over Cremation
Does God care if we burn or bury the dead?
On Assisted Suicide: What I Said to My State Legislators
Physicians must never treat suffering with death. Assisted suicide—however motivated—is a form of murder.
