Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
the character of a personal fault in any of Adam's descendants ... but the consequences for
nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist in man". [57] "In other words, human beings do not
bear any 'original guilt' from Adam and Eve's particular sin."
Eastern Orthodoxy
The Eastern Orthodox's
hereditary guilt.
never accepted Augustine of Hippo's notions of original sin and
Orthodox Churches accept the teachings of John Cassian, as do Catholic Churches eastern
and western, in rejecting the doctrine of Total Depravity, by teaching that human nature is
"fallen", that is, depraved, but not totally.
Eastern Orthodoxy accepts the doctrine of ancestral sin: "Original sin is hereditary. It did not
remain only Adam and Eve's. As life passes from them to all of their descendants, so does
original sin."
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