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To: kosta50; jo kus
you attach shame and guilt to each human being born for their doing

Did I or anyone respond to this?

There may be some popular sentiment like you describe, but the teaching is that original sin is not personal sin and is washed away at baptism. A baptized Christian does not bear the sin of Adam in any sense, although, just like the Orthodox believe, he struggles with the inherited consequences of that sin.

2,896 posted on 02/22/2006 9:42:39 AM PST by annalex
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To: annalex; Forest Keeper

I was referring to Calvinists, who cliam that this is the teaching of St. Augustine. I am fully aware that the Catholic Church does not subscribe this doctrine of theirs. Which is why we (catholic Christians) are often labeled "semi-Pelagian."


2,911 posted on 02/22/2006 4:08:56 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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