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as is the way that document refers to ' Solidarity with Christ ' - 3.3. Solidarity with Christ 88. There is a fundamental unity and solidarity between Christ and the whole human race. By his Incarnation, the Son of God has united himself, in some way (“ quodammodo ”), with every human being (GS 22)....

Cheers, iskander. The previous passage is interesting from a historical perspective - 15. The fate of unbaptised infants first became the subject of sustained theological reflection in the West during the anti-Pelagian controversies of the early 5th century. St. Augustine addressed the question beca...

Augustine [354–430 AD/CE ]... developed the doctrine, seeing it as based on the New Testament teaching of Paul the Apostle (Romans 5:12–21 and 1 Corinthians 15:22) and the Old Testament verse of Psalm 51:5. Augustine used Ciceronian Stoic concept of passions, to interpret St. Paul's doctrine of uni...

Interestingly, Although not named in the Bible , the doctrine of 'the Fall' [of Mam] comes from a 'biblical' interpretation of Genesis chapter 3. At first, Adam and Eve lived with God in the Garden of Eden, but the serpent tempted them into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evi...

The history of the doctrine of Original Sin , as outlined in wikipedia, is interesting - Original sin , also called ancestral sin, is the Christian doctrine of humanity's state of sin resulting from the fall of man , namely the sin of consuming from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, stemming f...

outhouse wrote: John the Baptist does not fit as a completely separate item on the list, but I have added him as a possible example for the new category "Jewish traditions emanating from contemporary or near contemporary religious figures".

John the Baptist may not have been Jewish.

Do you care to elaborate? Do you think there is a true Christ? I think there is no true Christ anywhere, past, present and future .. Cordially, Bernard Cheers. I was wondering if you saw another Christ or hints of another Christ somewhere in the early Christian or in the para-christian (gnostic)lit...

theterminator wrote: how many different pronunciations of this word?

I once saw a description that it was originally a breath in and a breath out - the word for breath was the same as the word for spirit.

Bernard Muller wrote: For the record, I consider Jesus as a false Christ.

Do you care to elaborate? Do you think there is a true Christ?

Secret Alias wrote:

Fair enough: I see my mistake (edited^^).