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To: RnMomof7
Why don't you do some reading up on this or ask Kolo or kosta to explain this further

This is from Orthodox wiki

http://orthodoxwiki.org/Original_sin

Roman Catholic theologians would claim that the basic anthropology is actually almost identical, and that the difference is only in the explanation of what happened in the Fall. In the Orthodox Church the term ancestral sin (Gr. προπατορικό αμάρτημα) is preferred and is used to define the doctrine of man's "inclination towards sin, a heritage from the sin of our progenitors" and that this is removed through baptism. St. Gregory Palamas taught that man's image was tarnished, disfigured, as a consequence of Adam's disobedience.

15,646 posted on 11/07/2010 11:31:32 AM PST by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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To: stfassisi

Catholics like to pretend that they and the orthodox are the same except for the papacy

Not so

They reject the teachings of Augustine on original sin.. they do not believe that man is born with the sin or the guilt of the sin of Adam, only with the effects of the fall.


15,649 posted on 11/07/2010 11:59:54 AM PST by RnMomof7 (Gal 4:16 asks "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?")
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