[Grig]

"That is the heresy of Pelagianism, condemned in the Third Ecumenical Council at Ephesus in 431."

That is an opinion (and council) of men, one I reject. Original sin is a teaching that defies the justice of God. Do we imprison or punish people for the crimes of their parents? No, even mortal men know that is not justice.

[adiaireton8]

It would help if you actually understood the doctrine of original sin before rejecting it. You are mistakingly viewing it in a stipulative, voluntaristic, legal way. That's not what it is. All men were in Adam.

"For if the many died by the trespass of the one man" (Rom 5:15)

"For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man" (Rom 5:17)

"Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men" (Rom 5:18)

"For as in Adam all die" (1 Cor 15:22)

-A8