Dunemeister
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The concept of original sin, as understood in Western Christianity, is nowhere to be found in the Genesis account, or indeed anywhere in the Bible, and is foreign to both Judaism and Eastern Christianity.
That's simply historically false. St. Augustine of Hippo made the doctrine more explicit, but he didn't invent it. It had wide circulation in the Eastern churches before Augustine, although not specifically in an Augustinian form. (Besides, Augustine was from North Africa, so does that make him "Eastern" or "Western"?)
It's also misleading to say that doctrines "don't appear" in scripture. The bible contains almost no extended didactic treatments of any doctrines. It contains mostly narratives. The doctrines must be derived mostly from the narratives.
The only true statement in your post is that the concept of original sin is foreign to Judaism. However, all we know is that it's foreign to mainstream Judaism. Since the doctrine is reasonably derivable from scripture, it's at least logically possible for there to have been Jewish groups that have formulated that doctrine.