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What would be the impact if the church stopped recognizing original sin? The first Christians did not believe in original sin - Philosophical criticism of Christianity and religion

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Augustine (430) was the inventor of the perverse doctrine of original sin.
Original sin. ….. Baptism and the necessity of baptism. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that baptism is a condition of salvation.

Approximately half of the teachings of Christian churches are directly or indirectly based on original sin. Such a religion would be so different from the current teachings of the church that contemporary Christians would refuse to call them Christians. It is tragicomic, but contemporary Christians would refuse to call the first Christians Christians.
I will give here at least a small example of what the church would have to change if it stopped recognizing original sin:

believers would in principle cease to need the church, and the church would become unnecessary. The services of the church would become unnecessary. The church would cease to be existentially important for believers as an intermediary of salvation. The church would lose enormous power over the lives of believers, which priests, bishops, and pastors would find very difficult to bear.
the church would completely abolish the sacrament of baptism or baptism would mean only some unimportant fashion accessory. The current teaching of the church says that baptism is existentially important for salvation, it is the minimum condition for salvation, otherwise you will be fried by God in hell for an indefinite period of time
The end of involuntary forced baptism of newborn children. The end of the forced imposition of faith on children. The church justifies the involuntary baptism of newborn children by saying that if the child were to die at a young age, the poor thing could be saved and not be fried in hell for all eternity (some children do die a few months after birth). However, if the church were to reject original sin, then the person would be saved regardless of whether or not they were baptized.
Children would decide freely in adulthood whether they want to be Christians or not (or whether they want to be baptized or not). The church would have to learn to respect free will and voluntarily try to spread its faith. Currently, the church involuntarily imposes its faith on children.
Change of wedding ceremonies. In church wedding ceremonies, the married couple swears before the altar that they will baptize their children and lead them to Christianity. This would have to be abolished. However, if we do not recognize original sin, then the Christian religion is not existentially important and there is no serious reason to involuntarily impose religious nonsense on children.
Going to mass, visiting churches, religious gatherings, the Eucharist, and the sacrament of the altar would become useless and unnecessary. Priests and pastors would find it very difficult to bear that no one is interested in their services. The main purpose of the sacrament of the altar is purification from original sin.
The Church would have to abolish the sacrament of the anointing of the sick, and it would have no meaning.
The church would have to cancel all evangelization efforts, the cancellation of so-called missions. The church currently claims that evangelization and imposing its faith on non-believers is existentially important for them to save these people from damnation, to save them from eternal roasting in hell. But if we do not believe in original sin, then all evangelization is completely unnecessary. The original biblical author, under the term Gospel, the proclamation of the gospel, meant something completely different from contemporary believers and meant it in a completely different context. The Gospel means good news. Good news of Christ's resurrection. Certainly, the original biblical author did not mean involuntary, manipulative, and dogmatic imposition of one's faith.
Christianity would have to become incomparably more liberal and tolerant than it is today. Christians would not consider their religion to be the only, infallible, correct path. They would have to learn to love and tolerate other religions and philosophies. For example, contemporary Christians consider meditation and yoga to be occultism and blasphemy against God, for which you will be reliably damned and fried in hell for all eternity. Contemporary Christians have a hateful attitude towards other religions and philosophies.

The history of the introduction of Augustine's heresy of original sin into the Church

The dispute between Pelagius and Augustine

History is written by the victors. While Pelagius argued that there was no need to baptize small children, Augustine, on the contrary, came up with a novelty and a new invention, that a newborn child already has original sin, therefore it must be baptized as soon as possible after birth.
Augustine was a strong fighter against Pelagius . At this time, Augustine was probably the most influential and powerful bishop in North Africa, and he often convened councils to assert his power. Augustine even got into a sharp conflict with the Pope because of Pelagius. The Pope wanted to rehabilitate Pelagius after Augustine condemned him at the council. After the conflict between the Pope and the North African bishops, the Pope backed down.
At the minor synod in 418 , which Augustine convened and which Augustine called a "council", where a few bishops participated, Pelagius was condemned and the innovative teaching of original sin and the compulsory baptism of young children was introduced.
Pelagius is still mistakenly labeled a heretic by the church, although the real heretic and apostate was Augustine.
Pelagius, on the other hand, preached a doctrine that was the majority in the church at that time, and Augustine's novelty about original sin was not known in the church at all at that time.
So-called Augustinianism prevailed in the church. Contemporary Christians should not be called Christians but rather Augustinians.
Contemporary Christianity wrongly attributes the name "Christianity" to itself, but it should be renamed Augustinianism .

One of the reasons for the great conflict between Augustine and Pelagius was that Pelagius urged the church elite of bishops to share their wealth with the poor, and this clearly angered the mammonist Augustine very much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagianism
Pelagius explicitly called on wealthy Christians to share their property with the poor. Augustine criticized Pelagius' call for the redistribution of wealth.
He explicitly called on wealthy Christians to share their fortunes with the poor. (Augustine criticized Pelagius' call for wealth redistribution.)

Pope Zosimus later supported Augustine and declared that he would do everything for the most effective dissemination of Augustine's new invention of original sin (correction: more precisely, his predecessor had already done so):
https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Epistola_tractoria

"Pelagianism" was later condemned at the Council of Carthage in 418, after which Zosimus issued the Epistola tractoria, in which he excommunicated both Pelagius and Caelestius. [8] [27] The concern was that Pelagianism undermined the role of the clergy and the episcopate.
Pelagianism was later condemned at the Council of Carthage in 418, after which Zosimus issued the Epistola tractoria excommunicating both Pelagius and Caelestius. [8] [27] Concern that Pelagianism undermined the role of the clergy and episcopacy was specifically cited in the judgment. [28]

Without the Pope's involvement, Augustine's teaching on original sin would certainly not have prevailed.
After the introduction of the doctrine of original sin, the church motivated believers to regularly attend church for mass, where the faithful gave financial donations, and Catholic priests and bishops also had a fantastic business selling indulgences.
And it was not only about money, but also about the feeling of social power, power over believers, and social prestige.

Letter of Pope Zosimus, machine translation from Latin, which implies that the Pope proactively supported and spread Augustine's teaching on original sin through letters and books:
"And although there are some others, on which the Church has generally agreed, which it has insisted on and to which it has subscribed in condemning Pelagius, these were specifically explained against him and his accomplices by the Apostolic See at the instigation of the most blessed Aurelius, Bishop of Carthage, and Augustine , with two hundred and fourteen other bishops, freed from his most corrupt senses, justified and published throughout the world in many letters and books , and the whole Church today rejoices, confesses, preaches and holds and will hold. May divine grace preserve your fatherhood and brotherhood in all things that are in accordance with these, invincible and immensely strong, and rejoicing in its own office."

The letter of Pope Zosimus, which introduces the novelty of original sin into the Church
First. This means that the free will that was sent to Adam through disobedience can be confessed as restored and freed through our Lord Jesus Christ: in the meantime in hope, but then in reality, as the apostle says: For by hope we are saved (Rom 8:24). However, we always need the grace of Almighty God for every good work, whether for thinking, or for beginning, for acting and for persevering completion, and that we know that we can do nothing good at all, whether for thinking, or for will, or for action.

Another possible interpretation of historical events is that the Pope yielded to Augustine's followers purely for political power reasons to keep the church united and undivided, and against his will, he made a political compromise and sided with Augustine. This may be something very similar to what we see in politics today, where individual political parties have to make extremely painful compromises to keep the government from falling, to stay in power. The introduction of the novelty of original sin was probably supported by more bishops in the church, although it created division in the church and some brave heroes even protested loudly:
"Eighteen Italian bishops, including Julian of Eclanum, protested against the condemnation of Pelagius and refused to follow Zosimus's Epistola tractoria," Wikipedia states.
Original sin gave bishops enormous power over believers, so the temptation to support the novelty of original sin was tempting for them.

Augustine was a war criminal.
Original sin is not the only novelty that Augustine introduced into the church. The second novelty was the introduction of violence for the purpose of spreading the only correct Catholic faith to heretics. Augustine had the largest share of responsibility for the use of violence and killing against the Donatist heretics. A prime example of Christian love. At that time, Augustine also had enormous political influence in the region. In modern terminology, Augustine would be labeled a war criminal and a criminal against humanity, similar to Putin or Hitler.
The teachings of the Donatists differed only slightly from the official Catholic Church of the time, and ecumenism with them was possible. Augustine's massacre of the Donatists was motivated more by political and power-related motives than by theological disputes.
Whenever the Catholic Church committed massacres and violence against heretics, pagans, Gnostics, and other religious followers through violence and crime, it referred to Augustine.
The entire Catholic Church, the entire Christianity, was built on crime and criminals like Augustine. For example, Saint Stephen was declared a saint only because he spread Christianity in Hungary through violence and murder. A great number of examples could be given.

AI wrote the following on the topic:
Polemic and Political Dynamics
The dispute between Augustine and Pelagius was not only a theological debate but also a power struggle in which church authorities and imperial courts played an important role. [29] Pelagius's teaching had significant support among the Roman elite and ascetics who believed in the possibility of a sinless life. [26, 27, 29]
Augustine and his allies waged an active campaign against Pelagius. Pelagius was accused of heresy in Jerusalem, but the case was referred to Rome for judgment. [22] Augustine persuaded two synods in North Africa to condemn Pelagianism, and their results were partially confirmed by Pope Innocent I. [22] After Innocent's death in 417, Zosimus became pope, who was initially inclined towards Pelagius and Caelestius, one of his followers. [30, 31] Zosimus even rebuked the African bishops for their hasty actions and declared Pelagius and Caelestius to be orthodox. [30, 31]
However, the African bishops, led by Augustine, did not back down and held another council in Carthage in 418, at which they unequivocally condemned Pelagius and his doctrines. [22, 26] After this council, Pope Zosimus changed his mind and issued the decree Epistola Tractoria, by which he excommunicated Pelagius and Caelestius. [31] Historians assume that the Pope's decision was influenced by the pressure of the African bishops and the imperial edict against Pelagianism, issued by Emperor Honorius. [31]

Note
Contemporary Christianity should be renamed Innocentism or Zosimism after Pope Innocent or Zosimus, who promoted and propagated Augustine's heresies and forever transformed previously tolerant Christianity into an enslaving ideology that proclaims its superiority.

In conclusion,
The reason why the popes and the emperor gave in to Augustine was probably that they wanted stability in the Roman Empire and did not want further civil religious wars and civil unrest. In the church itself, the resistance of the bishops to Augustine was not great, because the teaching of original sin gave the church enormous power, and power is the strongest drug.

The history of the introduction of Augustine's heresy of original sin into the Church

The dispute between Pelagius and Augustine

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