doesnt hte bible say we are born into sin? im asking bc ive never read it and am a lapsed catholic
The Bible says a looooooooooooooooooooot of things.
The doctrine of original sin was first put forward by Irenaeus (who was a right cunt, in my opinion) hundreds of years after Jesus' death. None (or very few) of the early Christians had any idea of "original sin."
Here's what people like
@ripskater abd
@Jim Bob need to understand: people have been ARGUING about how the Bible should be interpreted since the different books were written (and those books were written over thousands of years, by the way).
So it's not as simply as "does the Bible say this?" or "does the Bible say that?" You can use one part of the Bible to support an idea, and another part of the Bible to reject it.
You take an idea like original sin, there have been arguments made for and against it, with BOTH sides using the Bible for support.
What would solve a lot of problems, really, is if people stopped talking about "the Bible" as if was one book. It is 66 books. And there are
hundreds of similar books that didn't get included in the Bible for a million different reasons.
For example, the Gospel of John, which so many Christians base their faith on, was written to refute another text, the Gospel of Thomas, which wasn't included in the Bible... guess why? Because the supporters of "John" were in power.
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