quick religious...

question:

coming from a christian point of view...if we are born with 'original sin', and we are still 'paying' for that sin; getting baptized is a way of 'helping' with that, then in some way we are still paying for the sins of adam and eve. a sin that i, personally, had nothing to do with.

so then shouldn't the catholic church still be paying for their sins? forced conversion. the inquisition. the corruption.

coming from a catholic; the answer will be no. i've heard arguments that because that 'was in the past'...so was adam and eve. that the church is truly 'sorry'...well; so am i (provided i was part of this tradition). and didn't christ die for our sins?

so why do we 'pay' (again, coming from the catholic position) for the sins of the past? am i my brother's keeper?

man, there are a lot of quotes in this post.

amitabha...