Is It In the Bible? Sin, Satan and Judgment

A lecture on Early Christian Belief & Practice. A new concept was introduced into the salvationist debate of antiquity: free will. It absolved man of collective guilt and cultic uncleanliness.

Or did it? What about original sin? What was the role of baptism and penance? Why does man sin and what are the consequences? And what part did Satan play?

The debates were fierce in the early Church.