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According to the Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic teaching of Original Sin is wrong.
To quote Wikipedia:
St Augustine of Hippo (354-430), working with a Latin translation of the epistle, understood Paul to have said that Adam’s sin was hereditary: “Death passed upon (i.e. spread to) all men because of Adam, [in whom] all sinned”.[7] Original sin, the concept that man is born in a condition of sinfulness and must await redemption, thus became a cornerstone of Western Christian theological tradition through Augustine’s misunderstanding of Paul’s Greek - the belief is** not shared by Judaism or the Orthodox churches**, and has been dropped by some post-Reformation churches.
Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism, which together make up Eastern Christianity, acknowledge that the introduction of ancestral sin into the human race affected the subsequent environment for mankind, but never accepted Augustine of Hippo’s notions of original sin and hereditary guilt. The act of Adam is not the responsibility of all humanity, but the consequences of that act changed the reality of this present age of the cosmos. The Greek Fathers emphasized the metaphysical dimension of the Fall of Man, whereby Adam’s descendants are born into a fallen world, but at the same time held fast to belief that, in spite of that, man remains free. Instead of accepting the Lutheran interpretation of Augustine’s teaching, Orthodox Churches accept the teaching of John Cassian, which rejects the doctrine of Total Depravity, by teaching that human nature is “fallen”, that is, depraved, but not totally.
Does this prove that the RCC is** not** infallible?
Does this prove that the RCC is the Church that left the True Church (Orthodox)?
To quote Wikipedia:
St Augustine of Hippo (354-430), working with a Latin translation of the epistle, understood Paul to have said that Adam’s sin was hereditary: “Death passed upon (i.e. spread to) all men because of Adam, [in whom] all sinned”.[7] Original sin, the concept that man is born in a condition of sinfulness and must await redemption, thus became a cornerstone of Western Christian theological tradition through Augustine’s misunderstanding of Paul’s Greek - the belief is** not shared by Judaism or the Orthodox churches**, and has been dropped by some post-Reformation churches.
Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism, which together make up Eastern Christianity, acknowledge that the introduction of ancestral sin into the human race affected the subsequent environment for mankind, but never accepted Augustine of Hippo’s notions of original sin and hereditary guilt. The act of Adam is not the responsibility of all humanity, but the consequences of that act changed the reality of this present age of the cosmos. The Greek Fathers emphasized the metaphysical dimension of the Fall of Man, whereby Adam’s descendants are born into a fallen world, but at the same time held fast to belief that, in spite of that, man remains free. Instead of accepting the Lutheran interpretation of Augustine’s teaching, Orthodox Churches accept the teaching of John Cassian, which rejects the doctrine of Total Depravity, by teaching that human nature is “fallen”, that is, depraved, but not totally.
Does this prove that the RCC is** not** infallible?
Does this prove that the RCC is the Church that left the True Church (Orthodox)?