TrueOrthodoxy.Info - Saint Philaret the Confessor - On the Law of God - The Nature of Sin - 2 views
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isabella R on 30 Sep 09Orthodox Christians must not confuse this realization of the effect of the ancestral sin with the sectarian teaching about "Original Sin". There is no doctrine of "Original Sin"In the Holy Church, for it is not possible to inherit Adam's guilt. Nowhere do the Fathers mention "Original Sin,"but they refer to the ancestral sin, which caused, as Metropolitan Philaret shows here, not a guilt, but a hereditary disease, namely, the inclination to sin: man's state of separation from God, etc.