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Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity

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3. I don't know which denomination the minister belongs to but what is common to most is

Reply to erinlough (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 11:36 AM

Dec 2012

the doctrine that human nature was corrupted by the Fall. Catholics call it original sin. I believe Calvinists use the term depraved.

But that is not evil. If anything, it is a tendency to sin, to accept evil. Again, that does not make humans evil.

The whole story after Adam is the effort to return to that state in which we were created. The sole purpose of a church is to pave that road, no more, no less.

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Honest question. I just heard a minister at the Newtown vigil [View all] erinlough Dec 2012 OP

Not sure but I think it's a Religious meme that, unless SAVED by some higher power, we're all EVIL! NYC_SKP Dec 2012 #1

Didn't see the vigil - my guess is that he meant that we all sin. UrbScotty Dec 2012 #2

I don't know which denomination the minister belongs to but what is common to most is rug Dec 2012 #3

If the minister is of the Calvinist tradition Fortinbras Armstrong Dec 2012 #4

Thanks, this sounds like what he was trying to say. erinlough Dec 2012 #5

As I'm a Catholic, I don't buy it either Fortinbras Armstrong Dec 2012 #6