Grzech pierworodny a obraz Boży w człowieku
Original sin and the image of God in man

Summary/Abstract: The addressee of the biblical texts speaking of Adam’s sin and its consequences for humanity, are the people living already under its influence. In the beginning the Revelation sets the perspective of the Redemption of man afflicted with original sin. Precisely speaking, such perspective is the key to interpretation of the revealed reality. The prospect of Redemption leads to Christ. Through Adam’s sin human nature was deprived of sanctifying grace, and certain gifts involved the original state. Man still is the image and likeness of God, original sin however limits its clarity of that fundamental attribute of humanity created by God, and it puts man on the waiting road for the coming of his Redeemer. The Christian concept of death is not limited merely to its inevitability and universality, and to strict relationship with sin and disobedience. Christ shed new light on its mystery. In that light death appears to be an instrument of salvation, and a commitment to life as the execution of the will of God in the name of obedience. Human nature determines the “order of creation” and it forms close relationship with the reality of the image of God. That “Trinitarian understanding” of His image involves a category of gift, by which man and woman become one in communio personarum. The original sin has not destroyed that structure. The history of man and woman is a record of the saving completion of “spousal” meaning of the human body. The principle of that record is the image of God in man, and its depth affects the secrets of the human heart.

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