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To: adiaireton8

I was posting the article because it contains the OCA's stance within the text on the Sin of Adam. I doubt the OCA question-answerer was ever Latin educated, so I doubt he speaks with authority, certainly he cannot represent the Catholic church'es official stance.

That said there are Orthodox churches (as is also noted here

http://www.oca.org/QA.asp?ID=3&SID=3

Which have expressed wrongly stated interpretations of the Orthodox church's position on the Sin of Adam, and this turned up a lot after influence of Uniate, and Latin Educated bishops...

Either way what is clear is that the Orthodox do not feel Mary was pre-saved (we beleive she needed to be saved). Nor do they beleive what the protestants do; that she sinned as does everyone else.

I'm sure the Joint Commisions on Catholic-Orthodox dialog is pondering this, and I will say I think it's possible that both are differently worded versions of the same beleif. Though I am skeptical that one beleif would require the doctrine regarding the Immaculate conception, and one wouldn't.


18 posted on 12/21/2006 12:17:22 PM PST by kawaii
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To: kawaii
we beleive she needed to be saved

We too believe that she needed to be saved.

-A8

20 posted on 12/21/2006 1:04:49 PM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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