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To: stripes1776
The vast majority of Protestants do believe in original sin, but not total depravity. A belief in total depravity does not follow necessarily from the idea of original sin. Calvinist-Reformed thinking did go in that direction, but the vast majority of Protestants are not Reformed

I am becoming very much aware of the heterodoxy in the Protestant community, which is why I wrote "Reformed" but maybe should have been more specific, i.e. Calvinist or TULIP.

So do all Protestants consider themselves "Reformed?"

7,786 posted on 06/05/2006 12:55:18 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50
So do all Protestants consider themselves "Reformed?"

The language can be confusing. Reformed has come to mean Calvinist. The majority of Protestants do not consider themselves "Reformed."

As to the teaching of original sin, it is in the Roman Catholic catechism. The U.S. Catholic Bishops have a website that has an explanation of their teaching on the subject here. After reading through the page, I would say the Catholic teaching is what the majority of non-Reformed Protestants believe.

7,792 posted on 06/05/2006 1:21:18 PM PDT by stripes1776
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