Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bbncc5.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!bbnccv!bbncc5!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: Religious question Message-ID: <271@bbncc5.UUCP> Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 22:15:57 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncc5.271 Posted: Mon Sep 16 22:15:57 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 01:06:00 EDT References: <144@graffiti.UUCP> <57@bbncc5.UUCP> <811@aluxe.UUCP> <1480@hammer.UUCP> <1531@shark.UUCP> Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Lines: 8 "Immaculate Conception" is relative to the concept of "Original Sin", alluded to by Paul, and fully developed by Augustine, with which each person is born, and which is not "wiped clean" by observing ritual purity, or for that matter by Justification. -- /Steve Dyer {harvard,seismo}!bbnccv!bbncc5!sdyer sdyer@bbncc5.ARPA