RE: Ask a Bible college Student
November 4, 2016 at 1:03 pm
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2016 at 1:04 pm by Doubting Thomas.)
(November 3, 2016 at 6:55 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 3, 2016 at 5:09 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Unless things have changed since I became an atheist, I believe you are mistaken. Oh, everyone is free to interpret the stories as literal or fictional, of course, but official church doctrine is that the OT stories are all true.
Like I asked, what is the point in washing away original sin with baptism if the Adam & Eve story is false?
No sir you are mistaken.
But still, why bother with baptism if the Adam & Eve story is fictional? The basic tenet of Christianity is that every human is born with Original Sin due to Adam & Eve's disobeying God, and only accepting Jesus as your savior and being baptized to wash away Original Sin can you reach Heaven. The whole point of needing Christianity falls apart if you say that the Adam & Eve story is fictional, since anyone could get to Heaven just by being a good person to others.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.