[kosta50]

The Apostolic Church always saw Christ's sacrifice as liberating mankind from the bondage of the ancestral sin, an unwitting trap—a pit into which Adam and Eve fell and trapped all their descendents—in the form of obligate death. Christ broke the gates of hell and defeated death, theater liberating mankind of its hold.

But man still remains responsible for his own sins and can, ultimately, be lost because of them unless he repents. The participation in the life of the Church is geared towards repentance and spiritual healing through sacraments.

Thus, the Church accurately inherited the concept of sacrificial necessity for unwitting sins and retained the necessity of active repentance for willfully committed sins.

The Protestants, on the other hand, created a man-friendly theology according to which one's own sins count for naught once you declare your faith in Christ.

[aruanan]

The Protestants, on the other hand, created a man-friendly theology according to which one's own sins count for naught once you declare your faith in Christ.

Or, in the case of Calvinists, your sins, if they can still even be called that without abusing language, preordained by God in kind, in number, and in extent, count for nothing if you're one of the elect and count for everything if you're not, though it's neither a man nor God-friendly theology.