Originally Posted by christianyouth

When evangelizing should I explain the doctrine of Original Sin?

Scenario A "You lie, you cheat, you rob God of his glory continually by refusing to submit to him, therefore he is completely just in condemning you"

Scenario B "At the beginning of time God created Adam and Eve, the first humans. They were meant to worship God and fellowship with God. God placed them in a garden, and in this garden he gave them only one rule, and that was not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Well, they violated that rule, and they ate. Because of this their fellowship with God was broken, and a substance known as 'sin' entered into the world, and really messed things up. It brought about death, both spiritual and physical. It brought about suffering and disputes. In short, all the miseries that we know in this life are the result of sin. Because of the disobedience of Adam and Eve, all of us are born underneath God's anger and just condemnation. When we die, which is inevitable, we will go to hell and be punished for eternity. But there is a way which we can escape this condemnation. (insert Gospel message here.)


I'm very confused. Up until now, I always used Scenario A. But Scenario A does not mention Original Sin. And the thing is, all of the Gospel proclamations that I see in church history,(Turn or Burn by Spurgeon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Edwards, George Whitefield Great Sermons of the World: Repentance) don't mention it either. But if we are to be honest with the lost, shouldn't we speak of the imputation of Adam's sin as the cause for being condemned and not their own sin?