In the time of Jesus, which historians often refer to as the "late 2nd Temple period" we find within the varieties of emergent Judaism multiple interpretations of almost every subject imaginable -- the nature of God, the coming of the Messiah, free will and determinism, and explanations for the causes of sin, suffering, and evil.
"The deliberate sin of the first man is the cause of original sin" —[Saint] Augustine of Hippo, Algerian Christian theologian (354 ad–430 aDe, De nuptiis et concupiscientia [On Marriage and Concupiscence], II, xxvi, 43 What epidemiologist Thomas Francis, Jr. (1900 1969) was thinking when pondering certain inexplicable serologic data from a 1946 influenza vaccine trial may never be known.
John of Mirecourt (flourished 14th century) stressed the absolute power of God and the divine will to the point of making God the cause of human sin.
As a young crusader, Angelina understood that slavery was the root cause of the sins she saw around her.
But the root cause of this societal sin varied from person to person.
In North America, the principal cause of HPS is Sin Nombre virus (SNV) because of the geographically widespread nature of its rodent host, the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), the most common mammal in North America.
Believers speak of caring for the Earth as a tenet of religion, but environmentalists commonly associating that cause with biblical notions of sin and punishment doesn't ring true to me.
Try to identify the causes of your sins: Do you have questionable inclinations?
Thus, peroxynitrite-mediated Compound II formation (and not O2−-mediated Compound III formation) is the primary cause for SIN-1-induced inhibition of MPO activity.
That line now reads: "Homosexuality is a manifestation of the disturbance and brokenness in human inclinations and relations caused by the entrance of sin into the world.
