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

Socrates in the City

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The Importance of Baptism in the Church

I think both of those doctrines have widely different effects on people according to how they hold them, right? Yes. What would you say is a more prideful perspective that of the doctrine of the original sin or predestination? More prideful? Yes. There is something very moving I think about the idea that baptism takes people from the realm of death into the realm of life. And so for them to be welcomed into the church through baptism is to be welcoming into life.

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