Category: Original Sin
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Is Sin a Fact?
Substack latest. A passage from G. K. Chesteron examined.
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William Lane Craig . . .
. . . on the headwaters of the human race. A very intelligent article. I have had similar thoughts. Here is an excerpt from an entry dated 30 August 2011: But how can God create man in his image and likeness without interfering in the evolutionary processes which most of us believe are responsible for man's…
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Denial of the Lapsus is the Left’s Main Lapse
My title above. A long-time reader sends us his thoughts. Here are some of them, with my edits and a bit of commentary. Every so often I reflect on causes of the Leftist mentality, and all the madness it leads to. If we scan across favourite activities of the current woke age, such as racialism…
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Was the Fall Necessary?
Karl White inquires, Doesn't the classical doctrine of Theism as applied to Christianity require that the temptation in Eden and subsequent Fall were predestined and inescapable? I say this because if Jesus is a person of the Godhead then it must hold that his essence is immutable and above contingent change, particularly in response to…
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Catholicism as a Literary Affair?
William Giraldi in Commonweal: Because I want nothing to do with hocus-pocus, because dogma and decrees are closed to real contest, and because corporations make me glum (the Vatican is, among other things, a corporation), Catholicism is for me a literary affair: drama, poetry, myth, tradition. Homilies and hymnals, liturgies and sermons done right, the Benedictus,…
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Homo Homini Lupus
A 28-year-old Gypsy girl from the Tene Bimbo crime family 'befriends' an 85 year-old single man, marries him, and then poisons him, causing his death, in an attempt to steal his assets. The two were made for each other, the evil cunning of the woman finding its outlet in the utter foolishness of the man. …
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Homo Homini Lupus: The Red Army Rape of German Women, Spring 1945
The best antidote to the leftist-progressivist fantasy that man is basically good is the study of history, including the history of leftist-progressivist atrocities. Here is an excerpt from Antony Beevor's book on the fall of Berlin. "They raped every German female from eight to 80." Related articles Death Limits Our Immorality: Death as the Muse…
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Hegel on Original Sin
What follows is an excerpt from section 24 of the William Wallace translation of what is sometimes referred to as Hegel's "Lesser Logic," being Part One of The Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830), Oxford UP first ed. 1873, 2nd 1892, 3rd 1975: We all know the theological dogma that man’s nature is evil, tainted…
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Homo Homini Lupus
A 28 year-old Gypsy girl from the Tene Bimbo crime family 'befriends' an 85 year-old single man, marries him, and then poisons him, causing his death, in an attempt to steal his assets. The two were made for each other, the evil cunning of the woman finding its outlet in the utter foolishness of the…
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Milton Praises the Strenuous Life
Near the end of Richard Weaver's essay, "Life Without Prejudice," he quotes Milton: I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we…
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A Pascalian Pointer to Our Fallenness
Edward T. Oakes in a fine article quotes Pascal: The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is called nature we call wretchedness in man; by which we recognize that, his nature now being like that of animals, he has fallen from a better…
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Original Sin in a Darwinian World
Our old friend Jeff Hodges of Gypsy Scholar e-mails: I liked the interesting argument that the consequences of belief and nonbelief in original sin are both bad and thus evidence of our fallen natures. But I do wonder what either original sin or fallenness mean in a Darwinian world . . . Jeff has posed…
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Notes on Mortality and Christian Doctrine
1. Let's start with the word 'mortal' and remind ourselves of some obvious points. 'Mortal' is from the Latin mors, mortis meaning death. That which is mortal is either subject to death, or conducive to death, or in some way expressive of death. Thus when we say of a human being that he is mortal…
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Kant on Peccatum Originale Originans and Peccatum Originale Originatum
1. An important distinction for understanding the doctrine of original sin is that between originating original sin (peccatum originale originans) and originated original sin (peccatum originale originatum). This post will explain the distinction and then consider Immanuel Kant's reasons for rejecting originated original sin. It is important to realize that Kant does accept something like original…
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Lev Shestov’s Irrationalist-Existentialist Reading of the Fall of Man
It is important to distinguish between the putative fact of human fallenness and the various theories and doctrines about what this fall consists in and how it came about. The necessity of this distinction is obvious: different philosophers and theologians and denominations who accept the Fall have different views about the exact nature of this event or state.…