Sinner Question
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 30 May 2002
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3290

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Darryl Swett — 30 May 2002, 19:45

> From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
> Reply-To: urth at urth.net
> To: "'urth at urth.net'" <urth at urth.net>
> Subject: RE: (urth) TBOTSS and colonialism
> Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 12:04:43 -0700

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> Another critically significant point of the Christian episteme is
> that sin is a kind of bondage; that as long as we remain sinners,
> we are not in fact free.

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I do not know much about the particular differences of the many Protestant 
flavors, and I know even less about Catholicism.
I was raised in a Methodist setting, and I was taught that all people are 
sinners, whether they accept Christ as their savior or not -- being a 
believer does not exempt one from being a sinner.  Is this different for the 
Catholic system?

- Darryl / Dragonfly

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes — 30 May 2002, 20:05
  follows, by subject match Darryl Swett

> > Quoting me, Dragonfly wrote:
> > Another critically significant point of the Christian episteme is
> > that sin is a kind of bondage; that as long as we remain sinners,
> > we are not in fact free.

> [More Snips]

> I do not know much about the particular differences of the 
> many Protestant flavors, and I know even less about Catholicism.

Oh. Well, you know we're all a bunch of pagan goddess-worshipping
slaves of Rome, I presume, so what more would you need to know? 8*)

> I was raised in a Methodist setting, and I was taught that 
> all people are sinners, whether they accept Christ as their
> savior or not -- being a believer does not exempt one from being
> a sinner.  Is this different for the Catholic system?

Of course not -- St Paul is clear on this; all are sinners (tho'
Catholics and, I believe, Orthodox believe that Mary is an exception,
not through her own doing but through the "immaculate conception,"
a special miracle which allowed her to be born without the taint of
original sin, as a fitting "vessel" for Christ); and even after 
salvation, we continue to be sinners -- Paul speaks of "doing what
I hate," etc.

--Dan'l

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