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Tagged with original-sin soteriology
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For those who believe there was no historical Adam and Eve, how does Christianity make sense?
How can Christianity make sense without a literal Adam and Eve? I have heard many Christians (particularly Catholics) try and be conciliatory with modern science by claiming that Adam and Eve were not ...
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Just what does Infant Baptism accomplish as regards Original Sin?
The answer to this question indicates that the human soul is created by God, and without any lack of saving grace, at the precise instant that the soul is infused into the newly propagated human body.
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Christ 'made' sin - the Reformed, Protestant view?
Following on from both of the two recent questions regarding the inheritance or transmission of 'original' or 'inbred' sin, from generation to generation, I am interested in the Trinitarian, ...
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Why don't Catholics believe that Christ's atonement removed Original Sin?
Original Sin is the Catholic doctrine that all human are born sinners due to the inheritance of the sin of Adam. However, Jesus Christ atoned for the sin of mankind.
Therefore, one would assume the ...
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Immaculate Conception: Why was it necessary for our Salvation?
According to many Catholic apologists, like Dr. Robert Sungenis,1 the dogma of the immaculate conception of Mary is not simply binding because it is a divinely revealed dogma, but according to them it ...
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From a Dogmatic Catholic perspective, what is the eternal destination of an unbaptized embryo?
This dogmatic statement from the Council of Trent makes it Crystal Clear that we inherit sin from Adam.
If any one asserts, that the prevarication of Adam injured himself alone, and not his ...
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According to Calvinists, is each person "dead in sin" at birth, or only after committing a sin?
First I thought that there is no difference between OS (Original Sin) and TD (Total Depravity) in the Calvinist pov.
This is what I first thought : (OS = TD)
Cain/Abel/Seth (and their next ...
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What does Colossians 2:11 mean in light of Evangelical Protestant Soteriology?
And in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without
hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of
Christ;
Colossians 2:11 (NASB)
When you came ...
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In Romans 7 is Paul talking about before or after he was saved?
In Romans 7:15 Paul said "For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I." and in Romans 7:11 Paul said "For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, ...
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In Protestant faith is one's old self dying on the cross with Jesus symbolic, or the actual assumption of a new Eternal life?
Many years ago I accepted Jesus as my savior in a small Baptist church. Up until that time I had never felt any guilt over sinning. Since that day though I have a guilt feeling every time. Years ago ...
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Who believe that innocent children will also go to Hell?
But Jesus called the children to him and said, "Let the little
children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God
belongs to such as these. (Luke 18:16, NIV)
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