Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
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CONCUPISCENCE
Definition of CONCUPISCENCE: strong desire; especially : sexual desire
Was the sin of Adam and Eve the sexual act? Though no one of the early fathers have
defined this clearly, here is one explanation:
The Divine Principles - Young Oon Kim gives the following explanation:
http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Books/DP60/DP60-02.htm
“According to Genesis 3:6, sin originated from the fact that Adam and Eve had eaten the fruit
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This sin was passed on to their children, and it is
still inherited by us today. Therefore Christianity teaches that everyone is born a sinner, and
needs the Savior for his deliverance from the moment of his birth.
This sin could not be originated by eating a fruit. Therefore the fruit of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil should not be interpreted literally but symbolically. What does it
symbolize? What Adam and Eve did after they ate the fruit gives a hint to the meaning of the
eating of the fruit. They had been nude and not been ashamed at all. After they ate the fruit
they felt ashamed, and sewed fig leaves together and made aprons in order to conceal their
lower parts.(Genesis 2:25; 3:7, 8) What does this mean?
It is human nature to conceal what is wrong or defective. Job said in Chapter 31:33, " If I have
concealed my transgressions like Adam by hiding my iniquity in my bosom let the Almighty
answer me. " Job defended himself by saying that he had not the same sin as Adam, in other
words, what Adam concealed was his defective part, and that was h is lower part, therefore the
'transgressions like Adam's means sexual sin. To have eaten the fruit, therefore, represented
that Adam and Eve had had unlawful and immoral sexual relations which God had forbidden.
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