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original sin
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The first crime of disobedience against God, which Jesus is said to redeem through sacrifice.
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The Fall understood here as humanity's attempt to become God, so severe that neither simple pardon nor human payment can repair it.
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In Jiang's reading, Augustine intensifies Paul's model from a mistaken disobedience redeemed by Jesus into the claim that humans are born sinners and remain sinners unless taught obedience.
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Paul's definition of love is interpreted as a rhetorical conversion of affection into endurance, submission, and obedience.
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Jiang says original sin makes people slaves of the devil, while Jesus' loving mastery makes them slaves to Jesus.
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The church then forbids questioning authority by naming disobedience evil.
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Jiang says Augustine reverses Jesus by saying the inner spark is not divine but satanic pride.
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The doctrine of original sin teaches that humans are born evil and redeemed only through Christ and church authority.
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Student questions clarify that pride is permitted only if the Pope or church authority defines it as obedience to God.
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Jesus is presented as reasserting Mosaic law, freeing humanity from original sin through self-sacrifice, and creating a universal covenant open beyond Israelite identity.
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The show-trial confessions are explained through revolutionary original sin: old Bolsheviks had sacrificed everything for the revolution, so they could accept self-sacrifice to cleanse and preserve it.
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"Irritable and resentful. It does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoice in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,..."
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"Okay, so we are, we exist to obey God. Alright? Jesus taught us that we exist in order to be creative, in order to..."
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"But now because he loves you, you must obey him completely. And that means never ever question the authority of the church. Never ever..."
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"my beloved, be steadfast and movable, always excelling in the works of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is..."
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"So if the Pope tells you to take pride in being a part of the Church, you can't be, like, you are allowed?"
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"Like, if we really, like, try to pursue the original Jesus to believe that is to pursue our divine spark, but pride is a..."
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"...he sacrifices himself in order to free the Israelites of the original sin right because God's pissed off at people because people don't ate..."
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"Anyone and everyone can now love God, and God will love that person back, okay? And this, of course, starts Christianity, all right? So..."
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"Now the show trials, basically all the leading Bolsheviks, anyone who could have possibly challenged Stalin were arrested, and they confessed to being criminals,..."
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"...save the revolution, he would do so. So think of the original sin, right? The original sin of the revolution is all this violence...."
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"...we disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden that sin the original sin was so terrible that Adam doomed all his progeny to darkness..."
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"...satisfaction by himself we want to kill God that was the original sin we wanted to eat that fruit become God and then kill..."
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