According to the teaching, Original Sin is no fault of ours. It is something we inherited. This is true in both Eastern and Western Christianity. There is Original Sin, and there is Actual Sin. The two are not the same. Really, "Original Sin" is not a sin at all. The term is misleading. What it refers to is a state that humans have existed in since the Fall. A newborn baby has not sinned, he/she is not yet capable of sinning. Yet we are all born into a fallen state where we exist in a separation from God.
What "fall"? Where does man "fall" in the Genesis account? Man ascends and Jehovah gets pissed. Where does man "fall"? Just because he did not want to be slave at the whim of the "Gods"? A little selfish, don't you think...
...war, rape, murder are just aspects of life, after all Jehovah himself out of one corner of his mouth forbides man from raping, murdering, stealing, etc. but sanctions the Jews to steal land not theirs, take women not known to a man as their own property, and slaughter by the hundreds of thousands whole cultures for a piece of soil... yea, what a great "God"... if anyone has "sinned" I would say that that concept falls upon the "creator" himself...
So, if a newborn baby, is taken care of by a robot, perfectly programmed, within the relative term, with NO human contact, then you are saying that that baby would be "perfect" and not a sinner? After all it could be argued that we all "learn" sin...
