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Is original sin a state or an act?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

According to the Catholic Church and, to a lesser extent, some Protestant Churches, original sin is a state resulting from the actions of Adam and Eve but washed away by baptism. It was St Augustine of Hippo who developed the concept of original sin, and it was never accepted bythe Orthodox Church or the Churches of the East.

The conditional acceptance by the Catholic Church of the science of evolution, will in future result in some tension with the concept of original sin, and may require some adaptation. Already, the Church appears to be moving in the direction of abandoning the concept of limbo, a place where unbaptised babies go, because they are still in a state of original sin.

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