RE: Admitting You're a Sinner
January 17, 2018 at 9:30 pm
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2018 at 9:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 17, 2018 at 9:23 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: What exactly am I reinterpreting? This is what I was taught in my Catholic school and Catholic upbringing.
Some of the more old school folks take the literal approach to Original Sin - that Adam and Eve ate an apple and we literally inherited their sin genetically. And that's fine too.
-and that -is- "fine"...because thats's official catholic doctrine..without which, the entirety of the roman catholic theology crumbles. It's foundational..and non-negotiable.
Quote:Doesn't matter whether you take the literal approach or not, the take away point is that as human beings we all have an inherent tendency to sin, aka original sin.-and it does matter..because what you believe to be acceptable catholic doctrine..is self statedly not. The above is not the catholic doctrine of original sin..and if your catholic school or parrish taught you that it was...they have a serious crisis of faith going on with their staff and parishioners. They've resigned themselves to letting the inmates run the prison. This is a current, common, and serious problem in catholicism today..so sayeth the roman catholic apparatus.
You misrepresent the catholic faith with regularity and then get pissy when atheists "tell you what you're supposed to believe". Well, it's easy, because catholics have a list of what they're supposed to believe..and you should read it sometime. Original sin is a literal event in the real history of man..and the stain we inherit from our very real first parents. Not your "tendency to sin". This is the position of the catholic church, and unless you have aims to become the pope and somehow correct it..you're stuck with it.
Properly basic catholicism....and it's not even the silliest thing you're required to believe......
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