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To: Destro; Kolokotronis; jec1ny; kosta50; Agrarian; Tantumergo
Baptism is an initiation ritual - only after baptism can sins be forgiven.

This was the position of Pelagius and Julian. They were both excommunicated for this heresy.

Original Sin is the absence of sanctifying grace in the soul at conception and birth. Baptism remits this fault, which is not personal, but is communicated from Adam by natural generation, by infusing the newborn with the life of God. It is not an empty ritual.

If sin is ontologically to be void of the life of God, then a newborn has sin, because we are not born into the world connected to the Lord. If remission of sin is a process whereby the life of God is infused into the soul, either for the first time in Baptism, or again in Confession, then a newborn has this original sin remitted by the Sacrament of Baptism.

172 posted on 05/31/2005 7:23:25 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Hermann the Cherusker

I don't think you are correct. Alsp according to your position I don't need to go to confession anymore? Or instead of confession I should get weekly baptisims?


173 posted on 05/31/2005 7:26:03 AM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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To: Hermann the Cherusker

So if Jesus was without sin why did he undergo baptisim?


174 posted on 05/31/2005 7:29:02 AM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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