…thereof. In the same way, of course, there was no temple and no religion in the ordinary sense of the word in Eden. Adam and Eve didn't require a temple and didn't require the ordinary apparatus of religion because they were in a position to hear the…

…when we look at the book of Genesis, we find that religion in the conventional sense of the word began only after the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden. And the first record of it is the building of the two altars by Cain and by Abel. And…

…existed not to save man from guilt, but to save him from the corruption into which he had fallen after the fall of Adam and Eve. And consequently, The life was therefore more important than the death. Irenaeus says that Christ came and lived the life of…

…primarily, but from guilt. He was redeemed from the punishment which had to be inflicted upon him for the sin of Adam. And whereas the Greek theologians regarded God as primarily absolute reality, absolute spirit, the Latin theologians regarded God with the…

…He denied the originality of original sin. This was his profound heresy. at that time. He denied that the sin of Adam affected anybody except Adam himself. Denied that it went on affecting the entire human race. And he insisted that all children…

…originality of original sin. This was his profound heresy. at that time. He denied that the sin of Adam affected anybody except Adam himself. Denied that it went on affecting the entire human race. And he insisted that all children were born innocent even…

…himself. Denied that it went on affecting the entire human race. And he insisted that all children were born innocent even as Adam had been born innocent. As opposed to the doctrine of St. Augustine who affirmed that children were born in original sin and…