| It affirms the plenary inspiration and inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures, original sin, substitutionary atonement and justification by faith. |
| However, the East never developed a doctrine of original sin as the west did. |
| As to the other dominical sacrament, the role of baptism in justification is that it removes original sin. |
| And the reality of original sin and the necessity of baptism is the very first fact catechumens need to encounter. |
| And instead of original sin leading to the Fall of Man, we fear the degradation of Nature by an apparently malevolent human species. |
| The doctrines of the fall and original sin have offered explanations of this state of affairs, but they present some problems of their own. |
