Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live." View all posts by Jimmy Akin
Hi Jimmy – nicely put! James, Jesus’s brother was speaking from the JEWISH perspective, not the later “Christian” one! That was why Luther wanted the book of James OUT of the Bible. (Precursor of the Aryan Jesus Movement?). Wonderful use of the sparrows example – how quintessentially JEWISH!
Keep up the good work!!
Thanks for injecting some sanity into this discussion.
The point is that we are essentially good but suffer from a fallen nature. If we were created utterly corrupt, how could we fall? In fact, that state would be natural and there wouldn’t be sin.
Dennis Prager gives a talk all over the place arguing that people are basically bad and that no major religion has ever held otherwise. Hmmm…