Original sin widely denied today is nevertheless the condition in which our spiritual life
begins. Fetal psychology helps one see original sin as a psychic negation of the created
reflections in Christ of the traits of divine love within the Trinity. Hence only through
Christ can such damage be healed. But before we can live in the full freedom and power of the
Holy Spirit we must relive in Jesus and as He did all that God led His people through from
the fall of Adam till Jesus' death and resurrection. Through the spiritual sense of the Old
Testament each word of which speaks of Jesus we learn how to do this. The loss of this sense
embedded in the doctrine and practice of the much maligned institutional Church but forgotten
by most Christians explains the chasm that has opened between the intellectual life of the
West and the spiritual life of Christians.
