You're funny.
You have made proposition A
A = Augustine's arguments that formulated his doctrine of original sin are Greek in nature rather than Biblical
Actually the doctrine was formed before Augustine was born.
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Origen was another of the church fathers who taught a doctrine of original sin. He was a student of all the current philosophies and far outstripped Tertullian in wild philosophical speculation. His theology bears the unmistakable marks of both Gnosticism and Neo-Platonism.
Origen taught the preexistence of souls and that all men sinned and fell in a former existence. His belief was that men, before their existence in this world, were spirits without bodies, and that the material world was created by God for the disciplining and purifying of these fallen spirits. Fallen man had been banished into material bodies to be disciplined and purified. He taught that this estrangement of fallen spirits would some day come to an end, and all men would be saved. Even the devil and demons would someday be restored to God. Origen believed in a purgatorial fire where souls would be punished and prepared for the presence of God. In the end, all spirits in heaven and in earth including the demons, would be brought back to God, after having ascended from stage to stage through seven heavens. Origen believed that sin is rooted in the human nature of man. He believed that sin is a necessary consequence of man's material nature. Origen later assumed the existence of a sort of hereditary sin originating with Adam and added this idea to his belief in a preexisting fall. And he, like Augustine after him, supposed that there was an inherent pollution and sinfulness in sexual union.
Origin andHistory of the Doctrine of Original Sin
You have augmented proposition A with proposition B
B = Augustine didn't know Greek, only Latin
My observation is relevant. He had baggage from the Greek philosophy that he used to follow. He latched on to Scripture that seemed to support his views but actually did not. His lack of Greek led to his error.
Meanwhile I'm talking about C
C = The theological climate in which Augustine formulated the doctrine of original sin was the Pelagian controversy.
Original sin was taught by the early church even before Augustine was born, although he was the first to use the Bible to support his theory:
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But Augustine did not devise the concept of original sin. It was his use of specific New Testament scriptures to justify the doctrine that was new. The concept itself had been shaped from the late second century onward by certain church fathers, including Irenaeus, Origen and Tertullian. Irenaeus did not use the Scriptures at all for his definition; Origen reinterpreted the Genesis account of Adam and Eve in terms of a Platonic allegory and saw sin deriving solely from free will; and Tertullians version was borrowed from Stoic philosophy.
Though Augustine was convinced by the arguments of his earlier patristic peers, he made use of the apostle Pauls letters, especially the one to the Romans, to develop his own ideas on original sin and guilt. Today, however, it is accepted that Augustine, who had never mastered the Greek language, misread Paul in at least one instance by using an inadequate Latin translation of the Greek original.
The Original View of Original Sin
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To further substantiate my position I propose D and E
D = The consequent of the Pelagian denial of original sin is that there is no necessity for the Cross.
E = The result of D ultimately results in the loss of the Sovereignty of God.
Irrelevant. I don't need to discuss Pelagius to prove Original Sin is Greek dualism. Original sin was believed in before Pelagius was born.
The sovereignty of God is also irrelevant to the discussion.
That is the conversation in a nutshell, I believe I have represented you fairly and while you may not hold D or E to be true, it is ultimately to the inconsistency in your theology that you hold such a view.
Is English your first language? This
"it is ultimately to the inconsistency in your theology that you hold such a view"
sounds like a word for word translation from an East Asian language.