Original sin

===Seventh-day Adventism===
[[Seventh-day Adventists]] believe that humans are inherently sinful due to the fall of Adam,<ref name="The SDA Commentary">The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p. 1131.</ref> but they do not totally accept the [[Augustine of Hippo|Augustinian]]/[[Calvinism|Calvinistic]] understanding of original sin, taught in terms of original guilt, but hold more to what could be termed the "[[total depravity]]" tradition.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bibelschule.info/streaming/Woodrow-W.-Whidden---Adventist-Theology---The-Wesleyan-Connection_23617.pdf |title=Adventist Theology: The Wesleyan Connection |author=Woodrow W. Whidden |website=Bibelschule.info |access-date=24 January 2017}}</ref> Seventh-day Adventists have historically preached a doctrine of inherited weakness, but not a doctrine of inherited guilt.<ref>E. G. White, ''Signs of the Times'', 29 August 1892</ref> According to Augustine and Calvin, humanity inherits not only Adam's depraved nature but also the actual guilt of his transgression, and Adventists look more toward the [[Wesleyanism|Wesleyan]] model.<ref name="Pfandl original sin">{{Cite web |author=Gerhard Pfandl |url=https://adventistbiblicalresearch.org/sites/default/files/pdf/sinoriginal-web.pdf |title=Some thoughts on Original Sin |publisher=Biblical Research Institute |access-date=13 January 2013 |archive-date=21 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021173714/https://adventistbiblicalresearch.org/sites/default/files/pdf/sinoriginal-web.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In part, the Adventist position on original sin reads:
{{blockquote|The nature of the penalty for original sin, i.e., Adam's sin, is to be seen as literal, physical, temporal, or actual death – the opposite of life, i.e., the cessation of being. By no stretch of the scriptural facts can death be spiritualised as depravity. God did not punish Adam by making him a sinner. That was Adam's own doing. All die the first death because of Adam's sin regardless of their moral character – children included.<ref name="Pfandl original sin"/>}}

Early Adventist pioneers (such as George Storrs and [[Uriah Smith]]) tended to de-emphasise the morally corrupt nature inherited from Adam, while stressing the importance of actual, personal sins committed by the individual. They thought of the "sinful nature" in terms of physical mortality rather than moral depravity.<ref name="Pfandl original sin"/> Traditionally, Adventists look at sin in terms of willful transgressions, and believe that Christ triumphed over sin.

Though believing in the concept of inherited sin from Adam, there is no dogmatic Adventist position on original sin.