In this episode of the Outlaw God, hosts Steven Paulson and Caleb Keith delve into the theological implications of the law before sin, exploring Luther's perspective on prelapsarian law and its distinction from postlapsarian law.

The Word seems like it is so little, like five barley loaves and two small fish, but it is all that God used to create the heavens and the earth.

Broken lives, broken spirits, broken hearts; the ravaging results of sin in our lives and the world we were born into.

The baptized do not celebrate sin—they grieve it.

The addict’s condition speaks a hard truth: that we are all beggars before God, every one of us bent toward the grave.

David and Adam discuss the doctrine of original sin in the context of modern anthropological optimism.

Once Upon A Time in Genesis. In this episode, we talk with author Cindy Koch about her new book, Once Upon A Curse. We discuss Semitic poetry, the Psalms, Genesis, curses and promises, child-bearing, biblical versus earthly wisdom, freedom and bondage, and the ever-needed reality that is explained and defined by the story of Jesus Christ, the Lamb crucified from the foundation of the world.

This week on Tough Texts, Scott and Dan explore Romans 5, a chapter that addresses the concept of original sin and its implications for humanity.

The Thinking Fellows discuss the doctrine of man. What is humanity? What is human nature? What does it mean that man is sinful?

What we do much less of, even in Christian circles, is recognize just how pervasive sin is, such that it has thoroughly corrupted us.

What is original sin? Who is responsible for it?

This is an excerpt is from Chapter 1 of Let the Bird Fly: Life in a World Given Back to Us written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2019).