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Entry: The Addams Family Chapel Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_addams_family_chapel#11059 Post contents: I thank "Spartacus" for his link. The Eastern Church does indeed acknowledge Original Sin. Indeed, all Christians must so acknowledge or become Pelagian, in which case the entire Redemption, or even the entire economy of Grace, falla apart -- and one wouldn't have Christianity at all anymore, but some "Endarkenment" view of "no sin, only error" (Emerson), and then all we would need is education, not Grace. The issue at hand is not Original Sin, or the occasion of how it entered the world (Adam's fall), or its effects (concupiscence and death), or how it it removed (by dying and rising with Christ in Baptism), but rather how we come to be "infected" by it and with it. Here Augustine and the Eastern Church would seem to differ. Sent at: 2008 10 12