A few Scriptures on original sin for my Orthodox and seperated brethren;
When born of humanity, man contracts original sin without consent, that is why God can remove original sin without personal consent, as he does with newborn babies at baptism.
Actual sin can only be committed through informed consent, and so it can only be removed through informed consent, that is why we need auricular confession by a priest.
God infuses his divine image back into the baptized soul, only at the cost of his divine son’s death which paid the penalty of our original and actual sins, who reconciled us back to God.
Romans 5:8
But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.
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How much more then, since we are now justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath.
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Indeed, if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, once reconciled, will we be saved by his life.
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Not only that, but we also boast of God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
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4 **Therefore, just as through one person sin entered the world, and through sin, death, and thus death came to all, inasmuch as all sinned 5 – **13
for up to the time of the law, sin was in the world, though sin is not accounted when there is no law.
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**But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin after the pattern of the trespass of Adam, who is the type of the one who was to come.
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But the gift is not like the transgression. For if by that one person’s transgression the many died, how much more did the grace of God and the gracious gift of the one person Jesus Christ overflow for the many. **16
And the gift is not like the result of the one person’s sinning. For after one sin there was the judgment that brought condemnation; but the gift, after many transgressions, brought acquittal.
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**For if, by the transgression of one person, death came to reign through that one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of justification come to reign in life through the one person Jesus Christ. **18
In conclusion, just as through one transgression condemnation came upon all, so through one righteous act acquittal and life came to all.
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For just as through the disobedience of one person the many were made sinners, so through the obedience of one the many will be made righteous.
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The law entered in 6 so that transgression might increase but, where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more,
Job14: 1-17
Psalms 51:2-9
1 Corinthians 15;21
9 **For since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead came also through a human being.
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**For just as in Adam all die, so too in Christ shall all be brought to life, **23 but each one in proper order: Christ the firstfruits; then, at his coming, those who belong to Christ;
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then comes the end, 10 when he hands over the kingdom to his God and Father, when he has destroyed every sovereignty and every authority and power.
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For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
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11 The last enemy to be destroyed is death, **
Romans 3: 21-24
Ephesians 2: 3-6
2 Peter 2: 4
2 For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but condemned them to the chains of Tartarus and handed them over to be kept for judgment;
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4 and if he did not spare the ancient world, even though he preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, together with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the godless world;
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and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (to destruction), reducing them to ashes, making them an example for the godless (people) of what is coming;
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and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man oppressed by the licentious conduct of unprincipled people
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(for day after day that righteous man living among them was tormented in his righteous soul at the lawless deeds that he saw and heard),
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then the Lord knows how to rescue the devout from trial and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
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5 and especially those who follow the flesh with its depraved desire and show contempt for lordship. 6 Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to revile glorious beings,
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7 whereas angels, despite their superior strength and power, do not bring a reviling judgment against them from the Lord.
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But these people, like irrational animals born by nature for capture and destruction, revile things that they do not understand, and in their destruction they will also be destroyed,
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suffering wrong 8 as payment for wrongdoing. Thinking daytime revelry a delight, they are stains and defilements as they revel in their deceits while carousing with you.
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Their eyes are full of adultery and insatiable for sin. They seduce unstable people, and their hearts are trained in greed. Accursed children!
Peace be with you
