{"id":25814,"date":"2022-12-22T14:15:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/article\/original-sin-and-the-quran\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:41:38","slug":"original-sin-and-the-quran","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/article\/original-sin-and-the-quran\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Sin and the Qur&#8217;an"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"swp-tcr--abstract-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"work-abstract-undefined\" class=\"work-card--abstract\">\n<div>The present article addresses the common view that the Qur\u2019an has no doctrine of original sin. It begins by defining original sin with attention to the Bible and Christian tradition. Thereafter the author addresses Qur\u2019anic language on \u201cbearing the burden of another\u201d and the Qur\u2019an\u2019s generally pessimistic anthropology. Finally the author examines the Qur\u2019anic material on the fall of the devil, the permission which God grants the devil to lead humans astray, and the descent of Adam and his wife to the world with its adornments after their sin. The subsequent history of the humanity in the Qur\u2019an is punctuated with punishment stories. All of this leads to the conclusion that humanity\u2019s tendency to sin (and God\u2019s tendency to punish humans for their sin) is connected to this proto-history. Accordingly, while is it right that the Qur\u2019an does not embrace much of Christian teaching on original sin, it is nevertheless the case that in the Qur\u2019an Adam\u2019s sin has serious consequences for his progeny.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25810,"template":"","class_list":["post-25814","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"date_tournage":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Original Sin and the Qur&#039;an - Pluriel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/article\/original-sin-and-the-quran\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Original Sin and the Qur&#039;an - Pluriel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The present article addresses the common view that the Qur\u2019an has no doctrine of original sin. 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