Non-Catholic Christians and Original Sin

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Jon the Deacon (actually trained and educated in the Catholic church rather than the deacons of the various Babtist churches here in the south) that taught me in the faith also is a “former Lutheran” who when I came to RCIA said “Don’t worry you’re almost there”.

Chesterton said if you read history you cannot be anything but Catholic.

Your responses to me are so Catholic that you are close- but read the early Church Fathers to really find out what went on then, remember St. Paul said “Remember the scripture and tradition we taught”.

So St. Paul calls upon tradition, even though Luther rejects it.

The books of the Holy Bible that Luther deleted and the parts of Daniel and Esther were never told to me in my formation. My parents were not learned -I was the first to graduate collge- we went to church weekly. I only wish I could talk with Rev. Heckman as he was a theologian but so old while I was still young.
 
rev_kevin said:
Bad choice of words. Not meant literally but figrutivly. God always has choices.
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Thanks 🙂 Some people think that God has to act as they think he should. I think the Bible has examples of God changing his mind and choosing a different action. When justice would dictate that He should damn, He shows mercy–but not always.

God is as God does, even when it’s not what we think he should do-either in doling out justice “fairly” or in showing mercy.
 
It wasn’t until Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s commandment, they became like gods, recognizing right and wrong (Gen 3). Later it would be relative to God’s commandments and the law. Sin, death, and a fear for God entered the world through Adam. Discernment of right and wrong is not sin, but it leads to conviction as it did Adam.

1 Cor 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

Romans 6:15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. 18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

Romans 5:12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned— 13for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law.
 
From the Methodist Articles of Religion:
Article VII—Of Original or Birth Sin
Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk), but it is the corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam, whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and of his own nature inclined to evil, and that continually.
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