What does the Church teach is the penalty for original sin?

[Leo_The_Great]

What is the penalty for being born in original sin, as taught by the Catholic church i her ecumenical councils?

I am interested in gathering opinons to test the current view of this doctrine for an essay I plan on writing.

 

[Califman831]

the penalty for original sin is death, but we are saved through the sacrifice of our lord Jesus Christ.

 

[Nostradennis]

What is the penalty for being born in original sin, as taught by the Catholic Church

The first and most severe penalty is the loss of Sanctifying Grace and friendship with Almighty God. Original Sin puts us directly in the enemy’s (Lucifer and his angels) camp. Baptism can wash away the stain of Original Sin and infuse Sanctifying Grace back into our souls which makes us friends with God again.

The Loss of Preternatural Gifts: Immortality, Impassibility, freedom from Concupiscence, Ignorance, Sinlessness, lord of the earth.

So, even with the stain of Original Sin removed we are still left with the effects of Original Sin, and they are many.

1. Death. All must die the death.
2. Knowledge is darkened and the Will is weakened
3. Harmony between the spiritual and sensible faculties was destroyed. The flesh now rebels against the spirit in punishment for man’s rebellion against God. Romans 7:23 “I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind.” Gal. v.17 “The flesh lusteth against the Spirit”.
4. We must toil for our food.
5. Pain in childbirth for women.
6. MIsery and Suffering in this Valley of Tears until we die the death.

 

[Gregory_I]

The Penalty for Original SIn is first and foremost death of the soul in the loss of sanctifying grace, enslavement to the Devil, having the nature of Adam’s guilt imputed to us by procreation, that is, generation, and being incapable of doing anything that is supernaturally pleasing to God. We are also born enemies of God, under his wrath, and condemned, but not directly by God, our fallen nature dondemns us. As Pope St. Gregory I says: “Even the infant of a single day is not pure in his sight.” Oh, and The eternal penalty for original sin is condemnation to hell and loss of the beatific vision, but those who die in original sin alone and who are punished in hell are punished differently than those who die in Mortal sin. But this difference is not clear. It could be merely a qualitative difference (Deprivation of the vision of God alone, without the torment of hellfire, but the torment of the lack of being in God’s presence), a quantitative difference (Augustine’s Infant damnation, though he held they are punished with the lightest of punishments), or both (Lack of the Vision of God, without any Kind of positive torment, a la Peter Abelard)

As Far as Ecumenical Councils go, you really want to read Session 5 of the council of Trent, as well as the beginning of Session 6, and The Bull Cantate Domino By Pope Eugene IV, given at the Ecumenical COuncil of Florence, as Well as the Canons of Florence and the council of Lyons II, The Council of Orange II in the 6th century ( a regional council given ecumenical status by the second council of Nicea),

and the Council of Carthage XVI, which was approved and ratified by Pope Zosimus and whose findings he published in his tractoria, which he had all the Bishops sign under pain of excommunication, and also ratified by the Council of Ephesus. There it clearly states the penalty for dying in original sin alone is the absolute exclusion form any form of happiness anywhere. And Pope St. Zosimus said this is to be taken as the Apostolic See’s own faith.

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