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diff --git a/content/theses/metaphysical/religious/catholicism.md b/content/theses/metaphysical/religious/catholicism.md index 9acdd59..c7f0a7b 100644 --- a/content/theses/metaphysical/religious/catholicism.md +++ b/content/theses/metaphysical/religious/catholicism.md @@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ This notion of external, rather than internal, judgement is exacerbated by the C ### inheritance of the Original Sin Another example of the loss of mystery in Catholicism is the interpretation of the Original Sin. -In Genesis, Adam and Eve are created by God in the Garden of Eden, and are instructed by God not to eat from the Tree of All Knowledge, lest they die. The devil, in the form of a snake, approaches Eve and convinces her that God doesn't want them to eat from the tree, because they shall become like Him, and so she eats from the tree, and convinces Adam to do so too. By eating from the tree, they gain the knowledge of all good and evil, they realise they are naked, and decide to cover themselves. Then, once God apporaches them, He asks them why they hide from Him, at which point they respond that they hide because they are ashamed to be naked in front of Him. God then asks them about their action, at which point Adam blames Eve and Eve blames the snake; the snake is punished by being made to crawl on the Earth forever by its stomach, and Adam and Eve are expelled from the garden[^7]. +In Genesis, Adam and Eve are created by God in the Garden of Eden, and are instructed by God not to eat from the Tree of All Knowledge, lest they die. The devil, in the form of a snake, approaches Eve and convinces her that God doesn't want them to eat from the tree, because they shall become like Him, and so she eats from the tree, and convinces Adam to do so too. By eating from the tree, they gain the knowledge of all good and evil, they realise they are naked, and decide to cover themselves. Then, once God apporaches them, He asks them why they hide from Him, at which point they respond that they hide because they are ashamed to be naked in front of Him. God then asks them about their action, at which point Adam blames Eve and Eve blames the snake; the snake is punished by being made to crawl on the Earth forever by its stomach, and Adam and Eve are expelled from the garden[^8]. -In Catholic theology, it is understood that you are born "in sin"; you inherit the *guilt* of the Original Sin. Just as Adam and Eve were sinners, so are you, and you need to be cleansed, and be made "tabula rasa", a blank slate, and this is one of the purposes that baptism plays within the Catholic Church[^8] [^9]. However, this does not make any intuitive sense; to explain why, imagine a baby being born in a prison cell, due to it's parents committing some crime. It is obvious that, although the parents are guilty of murder, the baby itself is not guilty, nor did it inherit any such guilt. What it did inherit however is the *consequence* of the actions of it's parents. It is with this world like that too. Adam and Eve sinned, and were expelled from Eden, so now we are born into a mortal world; we didn't inherit anything except for the consequence.[^10] +In Catholic theology, it is understood that you are born "in sin"; you inherit the *guilt* of the Original Sin. Just as Adam and Eve were sinners, so are you, and you need to be cleansed, and be made "tabula rasa", a blank slate, and this is one of the purposes that baptism plays within the Catholic Church[^9] [^10]. However, this does not make any intuitive sense; to explain why, imagine a baby being born in a prison cell, due to it's parents committing some crime. It is obvious that, although the parents are guilty of murder, the baby itself is not guilty, nor did it inherit any such guilt. What it did inherit however is the *consequence* of the actions of it's parents. It is with this world like that too. Adam and Eve sinned, and were expelled from Eden, so now we are born into a mortal world; we didn't inherit anything except for the consequence.[^11] ### the vessel of Immaculate Conception |