Genesis
If Adam and Eve
Are not historical
Are a myth
The children ask
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Then what about
original sin
Is that a myth too
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Answers we may not know
A difficult problem
Of the pastoral ministry
Says Joseph Ratzinger
Our former Pope
How true
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Can we tell the kids
Adam and Eve are true
So we can
Help them believe
The Original Sin
Is true also
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What will that do
To their faith
When the learn
The Big Bang
And Evolution
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We may not know
The right answer
But we must
Teach them
The little
That we know
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The seed of sin
Is in our soul
From when we
We’re born
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The Bible
Says
Our first ancestors
Sinned
By disobedience
By giving in
To temptation
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That is a fact
We disobey
We give in
To temptation
And sin
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There are worse
Sins we commit
Than these
Jealousy
Murder
Rape
Abuse
Pride
Selfishness… the root
Of our sinful actions
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If we are children
Of Adam and Eve
We are born
Into sin
Because they sinned
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If we are born
Of evolution
We sin
Because
The sinful nature
Is part of our
Evolution
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We are born
Into sin
Our sinful nature
Passed on to us
By our ancestors
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If God’s created us
By intelligent design
Freedom given by Him
For our actions
We disobeyed
We lied
We gave in to temptation
And much worse
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We sinned
We are born
Into sin
Our sinful nature
Passed on
To us
By our ancestors
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So it doesn’t matter
What is myth
What is fact
You are free
To believe
The narrative
The creationist
The Evolutionis
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The Bible
Is not a book of science
It’s a book
That teaches salvation
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It teaches
That we were created
In God’s image
Sinless
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We gave in
To temptation
We sinned
And are born
With original sin
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The Holy Spirit
Poured out
At baptism
Erases original sin
We inherited
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But the tendency
To sin
Remains
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We may have
That tiny bit
Of sinful nature
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But we must not
Overlook
That God made us
In his likeness
Full of Goodness
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