{"id":185,"date":"2009-01-30T11:29:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T11:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2009\/01\/original-sin-halftime.html"},"modified":"2009-01-30T11:29:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T11:29:30","slug":"original-sin-halftime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2009\/01\/original-sin-halftime.html","title":{"rendered":"Original Sin: Halftime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><u>The Original Sin Series<\/u><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2009\/01\/original-sin-a-depraved-idea.html\">Intro<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2009\/01\/original-sin-my-intuition.html\">Intuition<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2009\/01\/original-sin-a-definition.html\">Definition<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2009\/01\/original-sin-the-genesis-of-a.html\">Genesis<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2009\/02\/original-sin-jesus-ambivalence.html\">Jesus<\/a>-Paul-Augustine-Calvin-Conclusion<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take a break on substantive posts on this topic over the weekend, and launch back in by tackling Romans on Monday.&nbsp; (It is interesting how many commenters on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2009\/01\/original-sin-the-genesis-of-a.html\">last post<\/a> were unwilling to deal with Genesis on its own merits but instead jumped straight to Paul. Also interesting how many already assume how I&#8217;ll deal with Paul when, in all honesty, I don&#8217;t know how I&#8217;ll deal with Paul.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have a post on Paul up on Monday morning, just in time for me to go on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wretchedradio.com\/\">Todd Friel&#8217;s Wretched Radio<\/a> program.&nbsp; That should be a laugh riot.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, let me direct you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;as_q=alan+jacobs+original+sin&amp;as_epq=&amp;as_oq=&amp;as_eq=&amp;num=10&amp;lr=&amp;as_filetype=&amp;ft=i&amp;as_sitesearch=blog.beliefnet.com%2Fjesuscreed&amp;as_qdr=all&amp;as_rights=&amp;as_occt=any&amp;cr=&amp;as_nlo=&amp;as_nhi=&amp;safe=images\">Scot McKnight&#8217;s lengthy interaction<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060783400?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=emergent-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0060783400\">Alan Jacobs&#8217;s cultural history of Original Sin<\/a>.&nbsp; That should make for some good weekend reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Original Sin SeriesIntro&#8211;Intuition&#8211;Definition&#8211;Genesis&#8211;Jesus-Paul-Augustine-Calvin-Conclusion I&#8217;ll take a break on substantive posts on this topic over the weekend, and launch back in by tackling Romans on Monday.&nbsp; (It is interesting how many commenters on the last post were unwilling to deal with Genesis on its own merits but instead jumped straight to Paul. 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