Not exact matches
If, as our current philosopher - pope reminds us,
sin flows from a failure to gratefully acknowledge and do the duties that flow from our deeply relational being, then Mattie was, in a
way, sort of a sinner
by nature (as are we all, due to
original sin), who added to her natural brokenness through her proud willfulness.
Pelikan summarized the Protestant
way of putting the argument: «If the Holy Trinity was just as holy as the Trinitarian dogma taught, and if
original sin was as virulent as the Augustinian tradition said it was, and if Christ was as necessary as the Christological dogma implied, then the only
way to treat justification in a manner faithful to the Catholic tradition was to teach justification
by faith.»
Another
way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's
original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured
by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»
Yorck gives
by way of illustration a re-interpretation of the doctrines of
original sin and the atonement.
Pius XI added, in Casti Conubii (1930), «Even though Christian parents are in the state of grace themselves, they can not transmit this grace to their children; in fact, natural generation of life has become a
way of death, the
way by which
original sin passes to children.»
I parted
ways with the Catholic Church in the 1960's over things like Purgatory (the best fund raising scheme ever invented), intercession with God
by Mary and a pantheon of saints, Vatican supremacy,
original sin, overly ritualized worship, confession, communion.
Now it is no
way apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with that which the sources of revealed truth and the documents of the Teaching Authority of the Church propose with regard to
original sin, which proceeds from a
sin actually committed
by an individual Adam and which, through generation, is passed on to all and is in everyone as his own.»
Not having such a theology of inspiration and interpretation, when Enns is wrestling with the concept of a historical Adam he strays from the doctrine of
original sin, which teaches that
original sin is passed on
by generation, and allowsfor an interpretation that «all have
sinned» through imitation or accident or, worse still, because we were created that
way.
Oh, and
by the
way, the doctrine of
original sin is not described until the NT, in which Paul puts forth the notion of Adam and the New Adam.
These folk live
by the concept of
original sin, and the problem seems to be that when things don't go their
way, they decide that they should pile on EVEN MORE GUILT.
If I am being honest, I will start
by saying that Divinity:
Original Sin didn't grab me in quite the same
way it so obviously did many others.
Let me start right off
by saying that Divinity:
Original Sin is unlike any Kickstarter game that I have ever personally played before and I mean that in the best
way possible.