The second article of Phillip Melanchthon's Augsburg Confession considers this religious doctrine, on which there is no disagreement between Catholic and Protestant denominations.
The second article of Phillip Melanchthon's Augsburg Confession considers this religious doctrine, on which there is no disagreement between Catholic and Protestant denominations. Both Christian denominations fall to the stance of Augustine who spoke out against Pelagius who used Ezekiel 18:20 to deny it. Christians cite Romans 5:12, and the Council of Trent provided the basis for the Catholic belief in Limbo by associating this doctrine with the "death of the soul." In a better known context, it is this doctrine which provided the necessity for the Immaculate Conception of Mary. The soul of the woman who would bear the Messiah would not have been pure otherwise, because Baptism had not yet been established. For ten points-- what is this Christian doctrine which holds that souls of newborns are stained by the transgression of Adam and Eve?
The second article of Phillip Melanchthon's Augsburg Confession considers this religious doctrine, on which there is no disagreement between Catholic and Protestant denominations.
{Original Sin}