| And instead of original sin leading to the Fall of Man, we fear the degradation of Nature by an apparently malevolent human species. |
| Once our divine origin was fixed, human miseries were explained as the punishment for some original sin committed by our first ancestors. |
| As to the other dominical sacrament, the role of baptism in justification is that it removes original sin. |
| However, the East never developed a doctrine of original sin as the west did. |
| Some theologians regard the presence of original sin as a reason to treat children humanely. |
| And the reality of original sin and the necessity of baptism is the very first fact catechumens need to encounter. |
