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Why did Christ’s sacrifice on The Cross not redeem us from Original Sin? God surely could take away the effects of Original Sin should He want to, but even Christ’s sacrifice did not satisfy for Original Sin…
 
Well, we are redeemed from Original Sin, but as you state, our propensity to sin (concupiscence) is not removed at baptism.

I don’t know why He doesn’t remove concupiscence at baptism but can only guess that He has some greater plan that involves our continual struggle.
 
Food for thought! Had Christ been accepted by all people when he entered this world as the Word Incarnate. Then Heaven would be here and now. But people did not accept Him. Instead they had him Crucified. If the world would have accepted Him oh what a Wonderful World this would be!!! God Bless!
 
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Well, we are redeemed from Original Sin, but as you state, our propensity to sin (concupiscence) is not removed at baptism.

I don’t know why He doesn’t remove concupiscence at baptism but can only guess that He has some greater plan that involves our continual struggle.
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Right - but there is something more! Removing concupiscence means that the Kingdom would be revealed in a way that would be inconsistent with the desire that all men come to know the truth. I hope I’m saying this right. In other words, it seems that its better for the Kingdom to remain partially hidden until physical death. This keeps everyone on their toes and seeking to know Christ. As Catholics, we know part of that Kingdom, through the Sacraments, especially the Eucharist.

I think at first glance, we would like to have concupisence removed. But when the Israelites asked to hear God, after being scared to death, they begged Moses to be their mediator once again. Probably the same for us; I know I have a long way to go before I’m ready.:cool:
 
Just to back up what others have said, the Council of Trent also related concupiscence to the good of struggling for the crown. Salvation is something worth fighting for, and therefore we are given the opportunity to fight for it.
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But this holy council perceives and confesses that in the one baptized there remains concupiscence or an inclination to sin, which, since it is left for us to wrestle with, cannot injure those who do not acquiesce but resist manfully by the grace of Jesus Christ; indeed, he who shall have striven lawfully shall be crowned.
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Genesis315 said:
Just to back up what others have said, the Council of Trent also related concupiscence to the good of struggling for the crown. Salvation is something worth fighting for, and therefore we are given the opportunity to fight for it.
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Although baptism remits original sin, it leaves us with concupiscence, a suffering body, and corporal death, until, at the resurrection of the dead, these defects are taken from the just. Meantime it is fitting and profitable that we endure them. By battling our concupiscences we gain a more glorious crown. Indeed the grace of baptism gives us power to overcome these assaults against which the unbaptised stand unarmed.
 
PJD1987 said:
Why did Christ’s sacrifice on The Cross not redeem us from Original Sin? God surely could take away the effects of Original Sin should He want to, but even Christ’s sacrifice did not satisfy for Original Sin…
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Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition, paragraphs 396-409.
 
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