Armenian View Research Paper

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Many people have different definitions on what sin exactly means or how to portray it. Some say it’s being rebellious towards God while others can describe it as something we always have within ourselves. The original translation means "to miss the mark" of God's holy standard of righteousness. While I believe is that some sins could be worse to commit than others, when it comes to the eternal consequences of sin, they are all the same. Every sin, every act of rebellion, leads to condemnation and eternal death Romans 6:23 tells us that the wages of sin is death but God’s gift would be eternal life. For example, the Ten Commandments give us a clear picture of God's laws. They offer basic rules of behavior for spiritual and moral living. Many…show more content…
The essence of the problem stemmed from the human desire to be like God. All sin, therefore, has its roots in idolatry. All humans have adopted this sin nature through Adam's original act of disobedience. The view that I would agree with the most would be Armenian View though I can see certain points of the views on why that would be believable. I will explain each view and why I agree with the Armenian View. Pelagian View was taught by Pelagius that God created every soul directly and that every soul therefore was innocent and unstained. This view taught that we don’t die because of sin in contrary to Romans 5:12. It’s not just this but other views are contrary to what scripture has to say. (Romans 3:9-18) The Pelagian View to me seems to be just too contrary to scripture and what exactly we’re supposed to follow. Now Federal View is seeing Adam as the representative of the entire human race. If Adam did will keep the covenant he made God would bless him and Adam being the representative would then bless the rest of the human…show more content…
I wouldn’t necessarily pick this view on account that I don’t believe there is total depravity. I don’t believe that Adams sin completely had effect on humanity. Augustinian View tells us that that all humanity was a participant in Adam’s sin. That just like Levi was “seminally present” in Abraham (Heb. 7:9–10), in a similar way, all humanity was “seminally present” in Adam when Adam sinned and therefore all humanity participated in the sin. This just like the Federal View shows us that total depravity is on the human race, which again it’s something that I wouldn’t agree with. Now the Armenian View in thought similar to Pelagianism, Arminius taught that man was not considered guilty because of Adam’s sin. This view does not take Romans 5:12 as all humanity suffering because of Adam’s sin but more in the fact since Adam sin, he imputed the sin to each human. So it doesn’t show total depravity but that we still receive a corrupt sinful nature. That is why I picked this view more than the others because I believe God made each one of us and therefore does not automatically put sin in us. To me that would be saying God is already making his creation in his image in a negative way. If we were born with sin already in us then it would make sense for infants to not go to heaven, but since they do not have the capacity in their mind to completely know what it is they still go to heaven. Though
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