... that "the church [..] cannot forget that she received the revelation of the Old Testament from the people with whom G-d in His ineffable mercy concluded the former convenant."1 The stories of Adam and Eve, the Great Flood, Cain and Abel, Abraham, in fact all of the traditions with the sole exception of Jesus and his teachings, are Judaic in origin. With the ... which is completely foreign to Judaic traditions, that of original sin. The idea of original sin, that we are all born bearing the taint of the first sin committed by Adam in the Garden of Eden, is completely contrary to the Jewi...

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