Have you ever tried doing backstroke in a swimming pool lane? What happens?

Have you tried pushing a dodgy

supermarket trolley where one

wheel doesn’t turn properly?

What happens ?

Have you ever tried

skateboarding down a road with

a curved surface? What

happens ?

In all these situations, something makes us leave the straight path, and go off to one side, not where we want to be going…

To define Original Sin

To describe the consequences of Original Sin

To reflect on how Original Sin affects us

The Meaning of Original Sin

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1. Copy out and complete the gap fill.

2. What sort of things would having Original Sin make people do, in general?

3. Why is having Original Sin like the skateboard going off path?

**Do you think anything could cure us of having original sin?

The story of the Fall _______ how Adam and Eve were the first people who sinned and lost ________ with God.

We are all the spiritual _______ of Adam and Eve. We too are _________ of God’s paradise, with a bad _______ against God. This bad attitude is called having ________ SIN .

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Draw the diagram. • Read Gen 3:7-13 and 3:19 to1. find out 4 ways how their Sin

made things go wrong for Adam and Eve

2. Give an example of having a bad relationship with others, God, and creation

3. Which of the effects of Original Sin do you think is the worst? Why?

• Hid from God• Blamed each

other• Felt ashamed of

themselves• Found nature

was not on their side

• Have to work hard now in life

1. S All life forms are made out of carbon atoms.

2. T God loves us, and made the world with us in mind.

3. S The sun emits radiation which travels to the earth as light and heat.

4. T We are tempted to do evil, because we are all born with a bad attitude to God, called Original Sin.

5. S We are mammals, like many others species on earth, and quite similar genetically to some of them.

6. S Creatures evolved slowly over time, to become more sophisticated.

7. T God loves everything that He has made, and wants to enjoy it as well and look after it.

8. S We can use and control many things on earth through science.

9. T Man is special – made in the image of God – and man and woman were made for each other.

What matters to you to know??

Write your own theological truths…

1. Who is God? What is He like?

2. What does God want us to do in our life?

3. What is the point of our life?

4. What does God want us to care about?

5. What sort of people does God want us to be?

“I believe..” My Theological truths

The Meaning of Life

As you listen/ read the song lyrics, what theological questions can you find???

(questions about God & what life is about)

Why are we here? What's life all about?Is God really real, or is there some doubt?Well, tonight, we're going to sort it all out,For, tonight, it's 'The Meaning of Life'.What's the point of all this hoax?Is it the chicken and the egg time? Are we just yolks?Or, perhaps, we're just one of God's little jokes.Well, ça c'est 'The Meaning of Life'. Is life just a game where we make up the rulesWhile we're searching for something to say,Or are we just simply spiralling coils Of self-replicating DNA....

 What is life? What is our fate?Is there a Heaven and Hell? Do we reincarnate?Is mankind evolving, or is it too late?Well, tonight, here's 'The Meaning of Life'.

For millions, this 'life' is a sad vale of tears,Sitting 'round with really nothing to sayWhile the scientists say we're just simply spiralling coilsOf self-replicating DNA. So, just why-- why are we here,And just what-- what-- what-- what do we fear?Well, ce soir, for a change, it will all be made clear,For this is 'The Meaning of Life'. C'est le sens de la vie.This is 'The Meaning of Life'.

The Battle

Design a poster to show how knowing Jesus can defeat Original Sin in you.

Be ready to present!

God decided to do something about us having Original Sin.

So He came down in a sinless human body. After his death and resurrection, He gave us the spiritual power of his sinless human body, to defeat Original Sin.

So now you can be a spiritual child of Jesus, and not of Adam and Eve. And He will give you His Holy Spirit, to battle against your bad attitudes, and defeat the Original Sin in you.