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To: MarMema
You think sin is CONTRARY to huimans nature?? Come on Mar.,..look around you..man needs a new nature..that is why Jesus said you must be born again
30 posted on 09/15/2002 5:29:13 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7
You think sin is CONTRARY to huimans nature??

Yes in that we were made in God's image. We suffer from the consequences of the division incurred as a result of original sin, but we do not bear the guilt.

We were not that heavily influenced by Augustine, if at all. We see him as a western saint.

Here is a blurb from The Orthodox Church -

"The image of God is distorted by sin but never destroyed...and because we still retain the image of God we still retain free will, although sin restricts its scope....Orthodoxy repudiates any interpretation of the fall which allows no room for human freedom....

"But although Orthodox maintain that humans after the fall still posessed free will and were still capable of good actions, they agree with the west in believing that sin had set up a barrier which humanity by its own efforts could never break down. Sin blocked the path to union with God. Since we could not come to God, He came to us."

33 posted on 09/15/2002 7:34:26 AM PDT by MarMema
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