Original Sin among Orthodox, Catholics and Protestants

[gbrooks9 (GeorgeB)]

@anon46279830

George are you a Unitarian in the sense of “No Trinity” or a Universalist Unitarian which is something very different?

@anon46279830

You’ll have to follow the split made by @swamidass to find my answer. His split has some deadends… here is the specific link to my answer:

Original Sin among Orthodox, Catholics and Protestants

@anon46279830: Unitarian Univeralists are a merged denomination… coming from two very old New England protestant groups. We reject Hell as a punishment for humans. We see Jesus as a human adopted by God as his son. The original Pilgrim church in Plymouth plantation became Universalist in the 1800’s … along with hundreds of other New England churches. Over time, the two denominations kept bumping into each other at gatherings seeking greater perfection of American society … and a joke was born: “We merged because Unitarians thought God was too loving to send mankind to hell, and Universalists thought humans were too lovable for God to want to.” I have a strong interest in interpreting the New Testament with a historical perspective that the primitive Christiain church might have been distinctly “Binitarian” before the doctrine of the Trinity became mainstream in the 300’s CE.