BJH1960 said

Paul’s later interpreters took some of the statements he made and created the doctrine. They then read it back into Paul & Genesis. Find a Jewish exposition of early Genesis. You will be surprised. Read Paul’s seven authentic letters in the context of Jewish apocalypticism.

Yes, reading the Jewish view of the story in Genesis is eye-opening.  
And although original sin is definitely the majority position in Christianity, it is not accepted by the Eastern Orthodox Church:
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Reading Jewish interpretations is liberating.  The presumption of Christians while telling Jews what their scriptures “really” mean is staggering.  

Back when I was searching (rather than merely being lost) one of the things that attracted me to Eastern Orthodoxy was its rejection of Augustine and Original Sin, an idea which still strikes me as sick. (See my Bad Ideas thread.) I also liked the eastern emphasis on theosis, divinization, becoming by grace what god is by nature.   The aspect that astounded me most when I first attended a service at a church was the utter absence of grim creepy Christs hanging on crosses.  (See any Ingmar Bergman movie.)   I was attracted by the sensuosity of the service, the light and the music.  (And the Icons.) 

I nearly took a trajectory being traced now by many jumping ship from Protestant denominations.  It is a remarkable process that is going on.  The Orthodox church in America is holding its own largely because of converts out of Protestantism. The cost of this is the, what’s a word? “de-ethnicizing” of the church.   Traditionally it was associated with eastern communities but the American church is really in flux.  There is a lot of agitation as these converts do like all converts do when they come from outside the tradition.  They want to bring some of their old ideas along with them.  I guess you could say they want to practice a “Protestant” Orthodoxy.  And of course everything gets “Americanized” eventually.  But the paradox is that converts are usually super-zealous so you have this situation where they’re anxious for ardent practice but filtered through their own sensibilities.   What will come of it?  

They’ll encounter one of the most culturally and politically reactionary communities you’ll ever see.  I said that I “nearly” took this trajectory.  Eventually the darker, more disturbing aspects of Orthodoxy presented themselves.  I heard someone boast that the church had not changed a single idea since the seventh century!  And that was to be admired.  Of course it’s blatantly false but tradition is heavy.  Politically they hold on to the idea that church and state must be intimately entwined and over the years this has enabled the church to support some awful regimes.  Today, the Russian Orthodox Church is one of Putin’s biggest supporters hooraying the war in Ukraine as part of the Holy War against western decadence, liberalism and satanism. 

Then there’s the institutional misogyny.  And sexual attitudes little better than those of my own family. 

It wound up that I was attracted by all the aesthetic aspects but repelled by the actual core of belief. I’m like a lot of people I’m sure.  I want the magic and the gods but not the obligations.  Could we create a religion that focused on the aesthetic parts and the community, that saw itself as some kind of communal metaphysical theater and performance art but ditched the gimcrack doctrines and the antiquated prejudices?  Maybe this kind of thing already exists?   But until we can convince the folks that require order and discipline and stringent commitment to unwavering convictions that they should be content to do their own thing and leave the rest of us alone, paradise will be out of reach.