(January 21, 2017 at 1:54 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I'd describe it more as the potential to sin. And that we all *will* sin if we can... ie, no one is perfect. It's part of human nature.
This hypothetical person will still sin, even if he doesn't learn it from anyone, bc it's in his nature to do so.
That's not exactly the way your church sees it, C/L.
Quote:Original sin - an essential truth of the faith
388 With the progress of Revelation, the reality of sin is also illuminated. Although to some extent the People of God in the Old Testament had tried to understand the pathos of the human condition in the light of the history of the fall narrated in Genesis, they could not grasp this story's ultimate meaning, which is revealed only in the light of the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.261 We must know Christ as the source of grace in order to know Adam as the source of sin. The Spirit-Paraclete, sent by the risen Christ, came to "convict the world concerning sin",262 by revealing him who is its Redeemer.
389 The doctrine of original sin is, so to speak, the "reverse side" of the Good News that Jesus is the Savior of all men, that all need salvation and that salvation is offered to all through Christ. The Church, which has the mind of Christ,263 knows very well that we cannot tamper with the revelation of original sin without undermining the mystery of Christ.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/ar...s2c1p7.htm
No wonder it took them centuries to work out that answer.
Then there is 390 which is a doozie.
Quote:How to read the account of the fall
390 The account of the fall in Genesis 3 uses figurative language, but affirms a primeval event, a deed that took place at the beginning of the history of man.264 Revelation gives us the certainty of faith that the whole of human history is marked by the original fault freely committed by our first parents.265
As whacked out as any baptist shithead ever born!
