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The serpent’s seed

The serpent’s seed

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The Western concept of original sin is inaccurate. In English, the Orthodox often call it ancestral sin, and it does not speak about how there is a literal transmission through wich an infant is born imputed with a sin for which they would go to hell/limbo if not repented for or baptized, but rather that all man has within them a natural, unavoidable inclination to sin.

So that when we reach the age of culpability, we will invariably sin in some capacity.

So, all of this other talk is extraneous, I think, and misses the point.

I also believe ti is the case that nobody ever stated that Adam & Eve through their powers ensoul. It seems like a strawman position, though I do assume that at some point in the two thousand year old history of Christianity it has been embraced.... Though I doubt it would be in those terms.

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Apologists for evolution's wide-ranging synergy wrote the human yolk sac off as an unremarkable carryover from early reptilian life. A new study found evidence, yolk from human blastocyst cells support the unique, organized anticipatory development, so as to defy thinking it only something voided out from an evolutionary track.

Anyways, it's possible to infer about the egg which came to be implanted or unused.... going by hunches the first woman had everything to live in subsistence on without defect. But temptation occurred, where perhaps, contamination rather than introducing itself profligately, resigned to first cellular losses.

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@divegeester
The yolk sac in human embryos is cited as evidence for the same in birds or reptiles of common evolution. But it's not so remotely alike according to the new research yet we'll never be sure.

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I just watched the film The World, the Flesh and the Devil. Ralph signifies the Adam figure, Sarah like Eve the helpmate and love interest, and Benson is either a second Adam, a dividing brother figure or competition to prove the scale of love. The devil wants to compete and will use any means. But the power in woman to protect and enumerate life can give a sudden and fateful defeat, thus I doubt the angelic forces saw what mother of all living earth had in store. The fall [out] did diminish human capabilities, however.

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@of-ants-and-imps said
I just watched the film The World, the Flesh and the Devil. Ralph signifies the Adam figure, Sarah like Eve the helpmate and love interest, and Benson is either a second Adam, a dividing brother figure or competition to prove the scale of love. The devil wants to compete and will use any means. But the power in woman to protect and enumerate life can give a sudden an ...[text shortened]... at mother of all living earth had in store. The fall [out] did diminish human capabilities, however.
Well said.

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Yet it is called by some ancestral sin to distinguish it from the Catholic doctrine of original sin and clarify that we do not believe that the child is born with literal sin.

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OK, and what do you mean by that, exactly?

The position that I describe as ancestral sin?

Then we agree.

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