evil inclinations and lived their lives in harinony
with the Will of God is clear from the, sacred
records of ail nations. The Bible itself mentions
Enoch Noah, Job, John the Baptist, and many others
as being perfect and upright and among those who
feared God and eschewed evil.
It is the height of misanthropy and cynicism to con-
sider children to be sinful at birth. How nreas.nable
and hardhearted a man can become by believing in
the dogma of the Inheret Sin is shown by the theo-
logical dictum of St. Augustine that all uibaptised in-
fants are doomed to burn eternally in the fire of hell.
Till recently, the unbaptised infants were not buried
in consecated grounds in Christendom because they
were believed to have died in ,he original sin.
The very basis of the doctrine of the atonement,
that is the belief in the Original Sin, having been
found to be wrong on the authority of Jesus Christ as
weli as reason, the superstructure of dognia built on
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