[extropy-chat] Original Sin was Bioethics Essay

[Dirk Bruere]

The Avantguardian wrote:

>--- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
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>>On May 23, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Dirk Bruere wrote:
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>>>Samantha Atkins wrote:
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>>It is not holy writ
>>or directly  
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>>>>supported by  such.
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>>>Of course it is.
>>>We allegedly got kicked out of Eden for doing just
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>>that and now you  
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>>>want to compound the sin...
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>Actually it WAS holy writ that knowledge was the
>Original Sin that got us kicked out of Eden. BUT the
>whole point of the xtian doctrine, as opposed to the
>ancient Judean tradition, was that the sacrifice of  
>Jesus on the cross erased all our sins including the
>original one. Thus to a xtian, knowledge is no longer
>a sin. Did they even read their own book?
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Xians believe a number of things and what you wrote above is only 
conditionally true.
The various conditions vary from being a member of the RC Church with 
all its procedures to specifically accepting the offer by being 'Born 
Again'. As for knowledge no longer being a sin, that's something that 
does not follow from your assumption, any more than a robber being 
pardoned makes robbery acceptable.

-- 
Dirk

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