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In order to support their official decrees raising [[Jesus]] to his unique stature as God, the hierarchy of the early Christian church developed several corollary doctrines. One of these is the doctrine of '''original sin'''. This doctrine as it is now taught in the Roman Catholic Church states that as a result of the fall of Adam, every member of the human race is born with a hereditary moral defect and is subject to death. Because of this inherited stain of sin, no man is capable of achieving either his decency or destiny without a saving act of God. This is accomplished, according to the Roman church, through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  

== Origins of the doctrine ==

For the most part, there is barely a trace of the concept of original sin among the early apostolic fathers, who believed that no sin could prevent man from choosing good over evil by his own free will.  

When the Church exempts Jesus from original sin, it distances him even further from the rest of us. By saying that we are sinners and that Jesus never was, it robs us of our potential to become Sons of God as we walk in the footsteps of Christ.   

== Inheriting Adam’s sin ==

{{PUC}}, pp. 137–38, 139–40.

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