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Also, you don't get original sin. I'm not going to try to set you straight (because you probably won't bother to read it, and you'll be back here tomorrow saying incorrect things again). However, you should know that you've got it very wrong wrt original sin and non-Christian infants.[/quote]
I just did a bit of Googling on "original sin" and what I found is that there is not much agreement on it.  I'm not the poster you were addressing, but my take is that, like many other terms we throw around as though we all understand them, original sin means many different things.  So, for one of my fellow atheists to be tainting all Christians, let alone all believers, with belief in original sin is a gross oversimplification.  But then, so is PP's implication that s/he knows exactly what original sin means.[/quote]

I'm the pp. For sure there's a lot of disagreement even on the basic tenets within Christianity, because religion is based on faith rather than fact or knowledge. You don't see scientists disagreeing very much on the existence of gravity - a fundamental force of the universe. The disagreement is a red herring since it is pointless what any particular practitioner choose to believe, but what is actually being claimed by a religion. Christianity claims to be the one true religion, with its God the one true god, with modern man being fallen, born in sin, and thus has a mortal life that ends in death. The salvation to get into heaven after death to live their real eternal life with God is to accept Jesus as their personal savior. All of this is tied together with the virgin birth of Jesus, his sacrifice for the sins of man, and his resurrection proves the truth of his claims. That people are sinners without exception and that the only path through salvation is Jesus is absolutely core to Christianity.

What's the point of needing salvation if it is possible to not be a sinner?

What's the point of having faith in Jesus if a sinner can also get into heaven through other means?[/quote]

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