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[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+10%3A1-2&version=NRSVCE Hebrews 10:1-2] clearly testifies that the sacrifices and washings of the Law of Moses can never make perfect the conscience of those who draw near to God, because even after offering sacrifices and cleansing their bodies according to the regulations and ordinances of the Torah blamelessly, without fault in their performance of them, they are still conscious of sin, for if they had actually been cleansed they would no longer have any consciousness of sin. But Christ through his blood in the washing of baptism with the word makes those who are members of his body sanctified, cleansed, without spot or wrinkle or any such defect, so that each one as members of the one body of Christ might be holy and without blemish, and this purity of a clean soul and clean conscience is the evidence of innocence in answer to the charge of guilt, "''the answer of a good conscience toward God''" (KJV).<ref>Catholic theologians answer that a terrified [[scrupulosity]] in the conscience is not a proof of not being cleansed of sin in the confessional, but rather an attack of the Accuser (''ha-Satan'' [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+12%3A10&version=RSVCE Revelation 12:10]) inciting a lack of trust in the mercy of God and the ministry of reconciliation entrusted to his Church ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+5%3A18-21&version=RSVCE 2&nbsp;Corinthians 5:18-21]), tending toward the dangerous sin of [[despair]], which gives birth to a bitter hatred of God's justice, loss of love and charity toward God and man, and finally—if not overcome by prayer and humble submission to God—to death ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+1%3A13-15&version=RSVCE James 1:13-15]).</ref> On the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] principle of ''[[sola scriptura]]'' itself, the belief that sin remains in the soul of every Christian cleansed and saved by the Lord contradicts the scriptures that say both that they are "in Christ", and that "in him is no sin".<ref>[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+6&version=NRSVCE Romans 6]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+12&3A12-26&version=NRSVCE 1 Corinthians 12:12-26]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+5&3A17&version=NRSVCE 2 Corinthians 5:17]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+3&3A28&version=NRSVCE Galatians 3:28]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+6&3A15&version=NRSVCE Galatians 6:15]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+1&3A1&version=NRSVCE Ephesians 1:1]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+1&3A11-14&version=NRSVCE Ephesians 1:11-14]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2&3A10&version=NRSVCE Ephesians 2:10]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+1&3A1&version=NRSVCE Philippians 1:1]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+4&3A21&version=NRSVCE Philippians 4:21]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+1&3A2&version=NRSVCE Colossians 1:2]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+3&3A3&version=NRSVCE Colossians 3:3]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Thessalonians+2&3A14&version=NRSVCE 1 Thessalonians 2:14]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+6&3A26&version=NRSVCE '''Hebrews 6:26''' "''holy, blameless, unstained''"]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3&3A5&version=NRSVCE '''1 John 3:5''' "''in him is no sin''"]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+5&3A20&version=NRSVCE 1 John 5:20].</ref>

[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+10%3A1-2&version=NRSVCE Hebrews 10:1-2] clearly testifies that the sacrifices and washings of the Law of Moses can never make perfect the conscience of those who draw near to God, because even after offering sacrifices and cleansing their bodies according to the regulations and ordinances of the Torah blamelessly, without fault in their performance of them, they are still conscious of sin, for if they had actually been cleansed they would no longer have any consciousness of sin. But Christ through his blood in the washing of baptism with the word makes those who are members of his body sanctified, cleansed, without spot or wrinkle or any such defect, so that each one as members of the one body of Christ might be holy and without blemish, and this purity of a clean soul and clean conscience is the evidence of innocence in answer to the charge of guilt, "''the answer of a good conscience toward God''" (KJV).<ref>Catholic theologians answer that a terrified [[scrupulosity]] in the conscience is not a proof of not being cleansed of sin in the confessional, but rather an attack of the Accuser (''ha-Satan'' [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+12%3A10&version=RSVCE Revelation 12:10]) inciting a lack of trust in the mercy of God and the ministry of reconciliation entrusted to his Church ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+5%3A18-21&version=RSVCE 2&nbsp;Corinthians 5:18-21]), tending toward the dangerous sin of [[despair]], which gives birth to a bitter hatred of God's justice, loss of love and charity toward God and man, and finally—if not overcome by prayer and humble submission to God—to death ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+1%3A13-15&version=RSVCE James 1:13-15]).</ref> On the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] principle of ''[[sola scriptura]]'' itself, the belief that sin remains in the soul of every Christian cleansed and saved by the Lord contradicts the scriptures that say both that they are "in Christ", and that "in him is no sin".<ref>[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+6&version=NRSVCE Romans 6]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+12&3A12-26&version=NRSVCE 1 Corinthians 12:12-26]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+5&3A17&version=NRSVCE 2 Corinthians 5:17]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+3&3A28&version=NRSVCE Galatians 3:28]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+6&3A15&version=NRSVCE Galatians 6:15]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+1&3A1&version=NRSVCE Ephesians 1:1]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+1&3A11-14&version=NRSVCE Ephesians 1:11-14]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2&3A10&version=NRSVCE Ephesians 2:10]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+1&3A1&version=NRSVCE Philippians 1:1]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+4&3A21&version=NRSVCE Philippians 4:21]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+1&3A2&version=NRSVCE Colossians 1:2]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+3&3A3&version=NRSVCE Colossians 3:3]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Thessalonians+2&3A14&version=NRSVCE 1 Thessalonians 2:14]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+6&3A26&version=NRSVCE '''Hebrews 6:26''' "''holy, blameless, unstained''"]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3&3A5&version=NRSVCE '''1 John 3:5''' "''in him is no sin''"]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+5&3A20&version=NRSVCE 1 John 5:20].</ref>

According to Catholic doctrine, baptism into Christ removes entirely from the individual soul the inherited defect of the original sin of the whole collective human race descended from Adam and the individually personal guilt of all sins personally committed before being baptized. Thus the effect of sin and its removal is not merely ''juridical'' as a legal decision exonerating the guilty by a decree of [[amnesty]], expunging the record of the individual and thereby formally changing the official, outward social and legal standing of the citizen in the eyes of the whole community. In contrast to the juridical model, by an absolute reality affecting the whole person, the removal of sin through the blood of Christ in baptism is instead ''[[Ontology|ontological]]'', affecting the very being of the individual soul, the "creature" itself, as the cure of a deadly disease is a real healing of the whole physical body, the image of which in the New Testament was the cleansing of leprosy by Christ and the apostles ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+9%3A2-8&version=NRSVCE Matthew 9:2-8]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+6%3A13&version=NRSVCE Mark 6:13]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+5%3A14-16&version=NRSVCE Acts 5:14-16]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+19%3A11&version=NRSVCE 19:11]). The defiling disease is removed.  

According to Catholic doctrine, baptism into Christ removes entirely from the individual soul the inherited defect of the original sin of the whole collective human race descended from Adam and the individually personal guilt of all sins personally committed before being baptized. Thus the effect of sin and its removal is not merely ''juridical'' as a legal decision exonerating the guilty by a decree of [[amnesty]], expunging the record of the individual and thereby formally changing the official, outward social and legal standing of the citizen in the eyes of the whole community. In contrast to the juridical model, by an absolute reality affecting the whole person, the removal of sin through the blood of Christ in baptism is instead ''[[Ontology|ontological]], regenerative'', affecting the very being of the individual soul, the "creature" itself, as the cure of a deadly disease is a real healing of the whole physical body, the image of which in the New Testament was the cleansing of leprosy by Christ and the apostles ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+9%3A2-8&version=NRSVCE Matthew 9:2-8]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+6%3A13&version=NRSVCE Mark 6:13]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+5%3A14-16&version=NRSVCE Acts 5:14-16]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+19%3A11&version=NRSVCE 19:11]). The defiling disease is removed.  

:"Therefore if any man ''be'' in Christ, ''he is'' a '''new creature''': old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV, ''boldface emphasis added''.) <br> "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a '''new creature'''." (Galatians 6:15 KJV, ''boldface emphasis added'')

:"Therefore if any man ''be'' in Christ, ''he is'' a '''new creature''': old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV, ''boldface emphasis added''.) <br> "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a '''new creature'''." (Galatians 6:15 KJV, ''boldface emphasis added'')

A legal declaration of amnesty cannot cure the physical being of the guilty carrier of a deadly disease, only the medicine of the practicing physician administered properly can do that. Sin is not merely covered up,<ref>[http://www.judev3.co.uk/1SinsCoveredOrGone.htm '''Sins - Covered or Gone?''' (judev3.co.uk)]. <br>A modern [[analogy]] of the fact that "a legal declaration of amnesty cannot cure the physical being of the guilty carrier of a deadly disease" is the judgment of the court in the famous case of "Typhoid Mary". See [https://www.thoughtco.com/typhoid-mary-1779179 Biography of Typhoid Mary, Who Spread Typhoid in Early 1900s: The sad story of a woman responsible for several typhoid outbreaks (thoughtco.com)].</ref> as in the sacrifices of the old covenant, which cannot take away sins, as the author of [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+10%3A1-22&version=NRSVCE Hebrews 10:1-22] clearly says, but is in reality washed away, removed, according to [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/ephesians/5-26.htm Ephesians 5:25-27] and [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-22.htm Hebrews 10:22] and [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/2_peter/1-9.htm 2 Peter 1:9]; see [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/acts/22-16.htm Acts 22:16]. <br>All that remains is the leftover temporal damage caused by the disease of sin. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+6-8&version=NRSVCE Romans 6–8]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+4%3A16-5%3A4&version=NRSVCE 2&nbsp;Corinthians 4:16–5:4]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+15%3A42-54&version=NRSVCE 1&nbsp;Corinthians 15:42-54]. According to the doctrine of the Catholic Church, those leftover temporal defects afflicting reconciled sinners who have been forgiven in Christ, the residual remaining non-permanent defects which they have not yet in justice fully rectified and overcome by grace-filled virtue during life on earth, will be purged away afterward to fully cleanse them of all unrighteousness in preparation for their entrance into heaven.<ref>A medical analogy often cited by Catholic and Orthodox theologians sees this period of life after the regeneration of baptism as similar to a time of physical rehabilitative therapy helping to restore some semblance of normalcy to someone who has been completely cured of a devastating disease of bone, tissue, or central nervous system, and who is not yet fully recovered, but actually can eventually be fully released to go home and live a totally normal life.</ref> Included is the doctrine that not all sins are fatal, as in [http://biblehub.com/john/19-11.htm John 19:11] and [http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-17.htm 1&nbsp;John 5:17].

A legal declaration of amnesty cannot cure the physical being of the guilty carrier of a deadly disease, only the medicine of the practicing physician administered properly can do that. Sin is not merely covered up,<ref>[http://www.judev3.co.uk/1SinsCoveredOrGone.htm '''Sins - Covered or Gone?''' (judev3.co.uk)]. <br>A modern [[analogy]] of the fact that "a legal declaration of amnesty cannot cure the physical being of the guilty carrier of a deadly disease" is the judgment of the court in the famous case of "Typhoid Mary". See [https://www.thoughtco.com/typhoid-mary-1779179 Biography of Typhoid Mary, Who Spread Typhoid in Early 1900s: The sad story of a woman responsible for several typhoid outbreaks (thoughtco.com)].</ref> as in the sacrifices of the old covenant, which cannot take away sins, as the author of [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+10%3A1-22&version=NRSVCE Hebrews 10:1-22] clearly says, but is in reality washed away, removed, according to [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/ephesians/5-26.htm Ephesians 5:25-27] and [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-22.htm Hebrews 10:22] and [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/2_peter/1-9.htm 2 Peter 1:9]; see [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/acts/22-16.htm Acts 22:16]. <br>All that remains is the leftover temporal damage caused by the disease of sin. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+6-8&version=NRSVCE Romans 6–8]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+4%3A16-5%3A4&version=NRSVCE 2&nbsp;Corinthians 4:16–5:4]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+15%3A42-54&version=NRSVCE 1&nbsp;Corinthians 15:42-54]. According to the doctrine of the Catholic Church, those leftover temporal defects afflicting reconciled sinners who have been forgiven in Christ, the residual remaining non-permanent defects which they have not yet in justice fully rectified and overcome by grace-filled virtue during life on earth, will be purged away afterward to fully cleanse them of all unrighteousness in preparation for their entrance into heaven.<ref>A medical analogy often cited by Catholic and Orthodox theologians sees this period of life after the regeneration of baptism as similar to a time of physical rehabilitative therapy helping to restore some semblance of normalcy to someone who has been completely cured of a devastating disease of bone, tissue, or central nervous system, and who is not yet fully recovered, but actually can eventually be fully released to go home and live a totally normal life.</ref> Included is the doctrine that not all sins are fatal, as in [http://biblehub.com/john/19-11.htm John 19:11] and [http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-17.htm 1&nbsp;John 5:17].