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==== Eastern and Oriental Orthodox ====
==== Eastern and Oriental Orthodox ====
In the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] there are no "categories" of sin as found in the Christian West. In the pre-Vatican II Roman Catholic catechism, sins were categorized as "mortal" and "venial." These categories do not exist in the Orthodox Church.
Orthodoxy believes that, while everyone bears the consequences of the first sin, the foremost of which is death, only Adam and Eve are guilty of that sin. Roman Catholicism teaches that everyone bears not only the consequence, but also the guilt, of that sin.
The Orthodox churches, including [[Greek Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox]], [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Orthodox]], and [[Oriental Orthodox Church|Oriental Orthodox]], differ little from [[Judaism]] in their holding of what sin is and how to reconcile it--except that animal sacrifices have never been part of Orthodox tradition.
The Orthodox churches, including [[Greek Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox]], [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Orthodox]], and [[Oriental Orthodox Church|Oriental Orthodox]], differ little from [[Judaism]] in their holding of what sin is and how to reconcile it--except that animal sacrifices have never been part of Orthodox tradition.