Augustine has a particular reason for blaming Adam only: he needs to explain how Jesus was born without the stain of Adam's
original sin. But Jesus was not Adam's descendant, at least not on his father's side; the Holy Spirit was his father.
Isaac Goff, in Mary in the Writings of the Saints, explained that Anselm provided very clear concepts of 'human nature, original justice,
original sin and the conferral and transmission of original justice and sin.'
'You were not involved but now you're stained with an
original sin ...
And you give us the sin that we never even agreed to commit and that is the
original sin,' he said.
DIVINITY:
ORIGINAL SIN 2 gives players the freedom of a sandbox RPG, encouraging improvisation and experimentation, with rules made to be bent rather than followed.
Original Sin 2 is better than the first in every way.
Theological "modernism" - or at the least the composite account of such modernism presented in Pius X's 1907 bull Pascendi Dominici Gregis--seemed to deny the reality of
Original Sin or to re-define it in terms compatible with modern science to refer to forces impeding an immanent, evolutionary divinity.
"The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of
original sin," he said.
The major trouble with so general a hypothesis as
original sin is that it becomes public property, so to speak, for anyone to pick up and use as a weapon against his opponents.
Scientific theories concerning the evolution of the human species have presented major challenges for Christian understandings of
original sin. It has become harder to hypothesize and locate a single first human couple.
Where
Original Sin comes into its own is how these powers can be combined.
Divinity:
Original Sin and the prospect of the wealth of fantasy content will give fans of Baldur's gate and Neverwinter's goosebumps.