Original Sin-Original Guilt, Christ's Righteousness-Imputation of Righteousness
Peter Kirk has posted a discussion of
the Latin text Augustine was familiar with and its effect on his doctrine of original sin. The claim is, effectively, this: Augustine believed in the doctrine of original guilt because of an ambiguity introduced by an excessively literal Latin Bible which persists in the Vulgate and later theologians have a propensity to read original guilt into the text of Scripture because Augustine did. The passage in question is the end of Romans 5:12. The English translations are pretty much all the same: "in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned." But Augustine's translation says...
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Augustine
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Bible
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Church Dogmatics
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Eastern Orthodox Church
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Grace/Predestination
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Greek
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Historical Thinkers
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John Wesley
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Original Sin
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Pauline Epistles
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Protestantism
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The Church
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Theology
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Translation
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