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20. Catholics don't believe in Predestination

And, the whole concept of Original Sin and Hell and Purgatory within Catholicism is complicated, as Catholics do not get "born again." It is very different from Protestant belief in Orinall Sin, especially Calvinists.

The Catholic Church teaches that every human person born on this earth is made in the image of God.[48][49] Within man "is both the powerful surge toward the good because we are made in the image of God, and the darker impulses toward evil because of the effects of Original Sin."[50] Furthermore, it explicitly denies that we inherit guilt from anyone, maintaining that instead we inherit our fallen nature. In this it differs from the Calvinism/Protestant position that each person actually inherits Adam's guilt, and teaches instead that "original sin does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam's descendants ... but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist in man".[51] "In other words, human beings do not bear any 'original guilt' from Adam and Eve's particular sin."[52]

Also:

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says:

By his sin Adam, as the first man, lost the original holiness and justice he had received from God, not only for himself but for all humans. Adam and Eve transmitted to their descendants human nature wounded by their own first sin and hence deprived of original holiness and justice; this deprivation is called "original sin". As a result of original sin, human nature is weakened in its powers, subject to ignorance, suffering and the domination of death, and inclined to sin (this inclination is called "concupiscence&quot .[47]

I am no longer a believer, but Catholics do NOT believe someone is born with a predetermined spiritual state or path, just that humans have a weakness, a darkness, in our nature that wants us to take the "easy way" out and sin, instead of living a moral and ethical life.


Predestination is, basically:

Predestination, in theology, is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God. John Calvin interpreted biblical predestination to mean that God willed eternal damnation for some people and salvation for others.[1] Explanations of predestination often seek to address the so-called "paradox of free will," whereby God's omniscience seems incompatible with human free will.