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Alan Jacobs: What's So Bad About Original Sin?

Socrates in the City

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The Problem With Innocence

I think a lot of Orthodox churches get into this the heaviness of sin that I'm sinful. Some people who just don't need to be told anymore how sinful they are. But if it's taught well it actually gives more of that compassion and that egalitarian even democratic spirit than the idea of human innocence does. What were Whitfield's views about baptism? Whitfield was an Anglican and what that meant. He was a Calvinist Anglican and he practiced infant baptism, which is very different from Baptism in some other traditions. The issue of baptism became really interesting because of Augustine’s view. And one of his ideas was simply this, unbaptized children go to hell

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