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For questions pertaining to the doctrine that humanity is in a state of sin since Adam and Eve sinned by disobeying God.
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For those who deny the Immaculate Conception, why did Jesus not have original sin?
There are at least several ways that this is explained. Here are three common ones.
One approach, taken by early and medieval theologians before the doctrine of the immaculate conception was widely …
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What is the difference in original sin and our nature to sin from a Reformed or Calvinist view?
The sin nature is an aspect of the doctrine of "original sin," but not the entire story.
Louis Berkhof's highly regarded Systematic Theology introduces the topic of Original Sin by calling it simply …
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According to LCMC Lutheranism, why is human imagination considered evil, when unsaved people...
This issue is addressed in the Augsburg Confession, which the LCMC accepts as "normative for our teaching and practice," like many other Lutheran groups. First we'll briefly look at the "evil human …
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According to Calvinists, is each person "dead in sin" at birth, or only after committing a sin?
Reformed catechisms make it clear that all of Adam's (ordinary) descendants are conceived and born spiritually dead. First, a translation of Q&A 7 of the Heidelberg Catechism:
Q. Then where does thi …
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If Christ had a complete human nature, how come his human nature wasn't totally depraved as ...
Perhaps another way to look at this issue is to focus on what human nature is, and see what sin changed. Man was created in the "image of God," which certainly included original righteousness (or, as …
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What is an overview of the similarities and differences between the Catholic doctrine of Ori...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church deals with this subject in §385–412. A couple sections in particular reveal several significant contrasts between Catholic and Reformed theology:
§405: Although …