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Effects of Original Sin

By Mike Sullivan

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Adam and Eve lived in a state of "original justice": the state of integrity wherein their whole beings were ordered to the will of God. With the fall, man has been deprived of the gifts our first parents enjoyed. These gifts are commonly called the "preternatural and supernatural gifts." With baptism, only the supernatural gifts are restored.

The preternatural gifts, lost in the fall, are:


• infused knowledge,
  
  
• absence of concupiscence, and
  
  
• freedom from death and sickness.
  
  The supernatural gifts, restored in baptism, are:
  
  
• indwelling of God in our souls through grace, and
  
  
• the theological virtues (faith, hope, and charity).
  
  

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