Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.
We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
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