No*s
Captain Obvious
*sticking neck on chopping block, but it'll be fun*
Maybe the problem isn't with the Divinity/humanity issue, but with people's definition of original sin.
The teaching of "Original Sin" is a tragic mistake in history (one of Augustine's negative influences). The last clause of the Latin translation of Romans 5:12 Augustine was using read: "in quo omnes peccaverunt," which means "in whom we all sinned." The correc translation would have been "eo quod omnes peccaverunt," which reads "because we all sinned." The latter is the correct rendition of the Greek "eph ho pantes hemarton."
From this Augustine reasoned that Adam's guilt past down to all generations until Christ took care of the debt. So, then, I am born guilty of Adam's sin, and so is everyone else here on account of Augustine's misreading. He also theorized this limbo where unbaptized infants go, because he couldn't cast them into Hell, but his theology still had them guilty.
As an aside, this is also where the doctrine that "Jesus paid it all on the cross" comes from. Anslem took this off of the backburner and melded it with Medieval thought. There, you have the higher ranking person deserving more greater restitution than a lower ranking person, often weighed in gold. Naturally, God has an infinite insult-price, so He needed infinite restitution. Anslem's theory, then, was that God became man so that God could hit Himself and satisfy His insulted pride like a good Medieval noble.
Both of these systems have us with a legal penalty, and the latter with a penalty of honor to boot, passed down genetically through the man. God couldn't forgive men for Adam's sin for legal reasons (or the insulted nobility) until Christ's sacrifice. Naturally, Christ couldn't be guilty, and that was their explanation of original sin.
Sin in Greek, though, does not necessarily connote a legal debt. When Adam sinned, our bodies and spirits were separated from God and fallen. This passed down from generation to generation until the time of Christ. People were born with a broken image, and without any real connection to others; only our own selves. As a result, everbody sinned. Not because everbody was guilty of Adam's sin, but because we all had the same disease: corruption.
In fact, that's very similar to the meaning of hamartia, hamartema, hamartano, etc. It means "to miss," or "to fall short." If I were shooting an arrow and missed, I might well exclaim "O popoi, hamartano!" in Ancient Greek.
So, when Jesus came, He came to repair our broken image and make it possible for us to return to God. We can't very well rise up to meet the Creator at His level. So, He came down to us.
The Holy Spirit came upon Mary and used her body to fashion the body for the Logos, and the Logos united with it. Just as Mary was a human just like us, born with the same flaw, so too was Jesus Human. On the other hand, God formed the other part. In this way, God and man were united into one person. He was "100%" God and "100%" man, meaning He lost none of either's attributes.
Consequently, Jesus lived a human life. He laughed, He played, He worked, He ate, He wept, He lived, and He died. He went through the whole human life-cycle there, and then when He arose, He sealed the deal so that we, when we follow Him and eat of Him, may also live and die, and then, rise with Him.
That, at least, is the position of the Church.
Maybe the problem isn't with the Divinity/humanity issue, but with people's definition of original sin.
The teaching of "Original Sin" is a tragic mistake in history (one of Augustine's negative influences). The last clause of the Latin translation of Romans 5:12 Augustine was using read: "in quo omnes peccaverunt," which means "in whom we all sinned." The correc translation would have been "eo quod omnes peccaverunt," which reads "because we all sinned." The latter is the correct rendition of the Greek "eph ho pantes hemarton."
From this Augustine reasoned that Adam's guilt past down to all generations until Christ took care of the debt. So, then, I am born guilty of Adam's sin, and so is everyone else here on account of Augustine's misreading. He also theorized this limbo where unbaptized infants go, because he couldn't cast them into Hell, but his theology still had them guilty.
As an aside, this is also where the doctrine that "Jesus paid it all on the cross" comes from. Anslem took this off of the backburner and melded it with Medieval thought. There, you have the higher ranking person deserving more greater restitution than a lower ranking person, often weighed in gold. Naturally, God has an infinite insult-price, so He needed infinite restitution. Anslem's theory, then, was that God became man so that God could hit Himself and satisfy His insulted pride like a good Medieval noble.
Both of these systems have us with a legal penalty, and the latter with a penalty of honor to boot, passed down genetically through the man. God couldn't forgive men for Adam's sin for legal reasons (or the insulted nobility) until Christ's sacrifice. Naturally, Christ couldn't be guilty, and that was their explanation of original sin.
Sin in Greek, though, does not necessarily connote a legal debt. When Adam sinned, our bodies and spirits were separated from God and fallen. This passed down from generation to generation until the time of Christ. People were born with a broken image, and without any real connection to others; only our own selves. As a result, everbody sinned. Not because everbody was guilty of Adam's sin, but because we all had the same disease: corruption.
In fact, that's very similar to the meaning of hamartia, hamartema, hamartano, etc. It means "to miss," or "to fall short." If I were shooting an arrow and missed, I might well exclaim "O popoi, hamartano!" in Ancient Greek.
So, when Jesus came, He came to repair our broken image and make it possible for us to return to God. We can't very well rise up to meet the Creator at His level. So, He came down to us.
The Holy Spirit came upon Mary and used her body to fashion the body for the Logos, and the Logos united with it. Just as Mary was a human just like us, born with the same flaw, so too was Jesus Human. On the other hand, God formed the other part. In this way, God and man were united into one person. He was "100%" God and "100%" man, meaning He lost none of either's attributes.
Consequently, Jesus lived a human life. He laughed, He played, He worked, He ate, He wept, He lived, and He died. He went through the whole human life-cycle there, and then when He arose, He sealed the deal so that we, when we follow Him and eat of Him, may also live and die, and then, rise with Him.
That, at least, is the position of the Church.