Posted by father john george
on November 3, 2009, 5:16 pm, in reply to "CATHOLIC TEACHING VERSUS KANDY THEOL"
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/audiences/alpha/data/aud19860924en.html#tocA1
--Previous Message--
: The Catechism of the Catholic Church says:
:
: By his sin Adam, as the first man, lost the
: original holiness and justice he had
: received from God, not only for himself but
: for all humans. Adam and Eve transmitted to
: their descendants human nature wounded by
: their own first sin and hence deprived of
: original holiness and justice; this
: deprivation is called "original
: sin". As a result of original sin,
: human nature is weakened in its powers,
: subject to ignorance, suffering and the
: domination of death, and inclined to sin
: (this inclination is called
: "concupiscence"). Catechism of the
: Catholic Church, 416-418
:
: Catechism of the Catholic Church explains
: that in "yielding to the tempter, Adam
: and Eve committed a personal sin, but this
: sin affected the human nature that they
: would then transmit in a fallen state …
: original sin is called "sin" only
: in an analogical sense: it is a sin
: "contracted" and not
: "committed"—a state and not an
: act" (404). This "state of
: deprivation of the original holiness and
: justice … transmitted to the descendants of
: Adam along with human nature"
: (Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic
: Church, 76) involves no personal
: responsibility or personal guilt on their
: part (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church,
: 405). Personal responsibility and guilt were
: Adam's, who because of his sin, was unable
: to pass on to his descendants a human nature
: with the holiness with which it would
: otherwise have been endowed, in this way
: implicating them in his sin.
:
: Though Adam's sinful act is not the
: responsibility of his descendants, the state
: of human nature that has resulted from that
: sinful act has consequences that plague
: them: "Human nature, without being
: entirely corrupted, has been harmed in its
: natural powers, is subject to ignorance,
: suffering and the power of death, and has a
: tendency to sin. This tendency is called
: concupiscence" (Compendium of the
: Catechism of the Catholic Church, 77), but
: is distinct from original sin itself, since
: it remains even when original sin is
: remitted.
:
: The Church has always held baptism to be
: "for the remission of sins", and,
: as mentioned in Catechism of the Catholic
: Church, 403, infants too have traditionally
: been baptized, though not guilty of any
: actual personal sin. The sin that through
: baptism was remitted for them could only be
: original sin, with which they were connected
: by the very fact of being a human. Based
: largely on this practice, Saint Augustine of
: Hippo articulated the teaching in reaction
: to Pelagianism, which insisted that humans
: have of themselves, without the necessary
: help of God's grace, the ability to lead a
: morally good life, and thus denied both the
: importance of baptism and the teaching that
: God is the giver of all that is good.
:
: The Roman Catholic Church did not accept all
: of Augustine's ideas, which he developed to
: counter the claim by Pelagius that the
: influence of Adam on other humans was merely
: that of bad example. For instance, the
: Church did not adopt the opinion that
: involvement in Adam's guilt and punishment
: takes effect through the dependence of human
: procreation on the sexual passion, in which
: the spirit's inability to control flesh is
: evident. Rather, the Church teaches that
: original sin comes to the soul simply from
: the new person taking his nature from one
: whose nature itself had original sin. In
: this way, the Church argues that original
: sin is not imputing the sin of the father to
: the son; rather, it is simply the
: inheritance of a wounded nature from the
: father, which is an unavoidable part of
: reproduction.
:
: The Roman Catholic doctrine of the
: Immaculate Conception of Mary is that Mary
: was conceived free from original sin:
: "the most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from
: the first moment of her conception, by a
: singular grace and privilege of almighty God
: and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ,
: Savior of the human race, preserved immune
: from all stain of original sin."[22]
: The exceptional character that Catholic
: doctrine attributes to the conception of
: Mary thus depends on the reality of original
: sin. If, as some hold, original sin did not
: exist, not only she, but all humans would be
: conceived "immune from all stain of
: original sin
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