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To: OkieAcres
Take it up with St. Paul (cf. Romans 5:12). Pelagianism (and much later, Socianism) is the heresy that denied original sin. Pelagians originally denied even that human death was the result of Adam's sin. But St. Paul denies that as well (1 Cor 15:21). The Apostles and the Fathers taught that man is now born with original sin.

The claim that the doctrine of original sin entails the justification of abortion is absurd. Evil is a privation of goodness, and thus evil is always parasitic on goodness; evil cannot exist on its own. So, no thing is pure evil. No baby is pure evil. Fundamentally, everything is good, including all babies. But that does not mean that all babies are free of sin. It just means that they, being fundamentally good, are tainted, marred, with sin. Grace restores nature; it does not replace it. The claim that all babies, on account of their original sin, should be aborted is as absurd as the claim that all sick people should be killed.

-A8

723 posted on 04/15/2005 11:38:06 AM PDT by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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To: adiaireton8
Comon man, I was not being serious about aborting babies because of their "apparent sin". I was just saying that people that do have abortions must have something against having that baby. Maybe it is that terrible ORIGINAL SIN.
I mean people are punished in our society and others all the time for "sinning". Just think of all the "sin" that doesn't go unpunished in this country. And we have abortion to thank for that unpunished sin. Oops...
Have I stumbled into a predestination debate now?
728 posted on 04/15/2005 11:59:54 AM PDT by OkieAcres
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