The Death of the Soul

The catechism, quoting trent, paraphrasing aquinas who is drawin from augustine, all interpreting paul on romans five 12 14, would say that the death that paul is talking about is the death of the soul. That is, when we are conceived and god creates the soul out of nothing, and thereby the tonal principle of our own personhood in potentia, that soul does not possess the supernatural grace of divine life. And so it is naturally alive, but supernaturally dead. Which is why paul then goes on to say inromans six, in talking about baptism, he doesn't describe it as wiping away the stain of