Brief Catholic Answer Detailed Catholic Answer The Origin of the Doctrine The Catholic Church holds that the Fall of Man is a foundational doctrine, rooted in the opening chapters of Genesis. The narrative describes Adam and Eve, the first humans, living in harmony with God in Eden. Their disobedience, prompted by the serpent’s temptation, led […]
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Before you existed your consent could hardly be requested. Also I would not need to be asked if someone offered to invest a few thousand dollars for me before I was able to be consulted. Yet the gift of life with a prospect of eternal happiness is more valuable than any earthly fortune. After all,
Why was I born without my consent, when I have to inherit original sin? Read More »
Original sin does not brand you with the positive guilt of actual and personal malice. It is a privation of a grace and of a destiny to which no human being has a natural right. God offered that destiny to Adam and to all his children, regarding Adam as head of the human family. Were
To brand me with sin is as unjust as hanging me for a murder I did not commit. Read More »
Your father was not constituted the head of the whole human race, and is but the intermediate transmitter of an individual human nature. If we inherited original sin as something of positive personal malice, it would be unjust. But we do not. Death in a state of positive and serious personal malice merits hell. But
No. God’s creative activity terminates in good only. But the soul cannot normally be infused into a child of Adam without its contracting the privation of the original gratuitous gifts it was destined to receive had Adam not fallen. I say normally because God did anticipate the merits of Christ in one case, preventing the
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