Thoughts on Sin by Ted Peters (1994) Unfaith 3F

Christians discovered that the principle binding soul to body was God’s creative activity.

In parallel, the Christian’s xiety (what they have, could have had, or pretend to have) may be a divine gift.

If this is so, then Christian anxiety would be the fear of the loss of this gift.

There is a certain beauty in deduction, is there not?  The irony contained in the divine gift – the holy creative activity – binding soul to body – is that – already for us – the divine gift has been compromised.  This (not some human propensity to anxiety, rage and violence) is Original Sin.