Council of Trent

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Session 5

June 15, 1546

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Christian

If any one asserts that the disobedience of Adam injured only himself and not his offspring … or that … only death and the pains of the body were transferred to the whole human race, and not the sin also, which is the death of the soul, let him be an anathema … If any one asserts that the sin of Adam — which in origin is one and which has been transmitted to all mankind by propagation, not through imitation, and is in every man and belongs to him — can be removed either by man’s natural powers or by any other remedy than the merit of the one mediator our Lord Jesus Christ [let him be an anathema]. 

as quoted in Documents of the Christian Church, p. 276

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