One reading of the Doctrine of Original Sin has it that we are guilty of a sin committed by Adam, thousands of years ago. Fission theorists account for this by saying that Adam fissioned after he sinned and that each of us is one of his ‘fission successors’. This paper recaps the current discussion in the literature about this theory, arguing that the proposed version does not work for reasons already raised by Rea and Hudson. I then introduce a new version of fission theory that avoids the Rea-Hudson objection.

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原罪的裂变理论

对原罪教义的一种解读是，我们犯了亚当数千年前所犯的罪。裂变理论家通过说亚当在犯罪后裂变并且我们每个人都是他的“裂变继承人”之一来解释这一点。本文回顾了文献中关于这一理论的当前讨论，认为由于 Rea 和 Hudson 已经提出的原因，所提出的版本不起作用。然后我介绍了一种新版本的裂变理论，它避免了 Rea-Hudson 反对。