Original Sin is a doctrine that developed in the 3rd to 4th century by St. Augustine in response to Pelagius who taught that humanity, following the work of Christ, did not need the assistance of Divine Grace to obtain final salvation. Original Sin was the solution for Augustine as to why Christians baptized children, which was an established practice. It teaches that everyone is born deserving damnation due to their link to Adam. Original Sin means the will is by default only willing to do evil continually. Baptism then, which is a form of Divine Election, as God chooses according to His will or prerogative who is saved and who remains reprobate, removes the "stain" of Original Sin. Unfortunately, many are baptized but do not live as Christians or even deny Christ. Therefore, for Augustine and Catholicism, and much of Reformed Protestantism, a dual election is necessitated. One election is for baptism, but you may actually be reprobate. A second election is for final salvation. Both then are needed for salvation. Instead of thinking according to Biblical theology, neither saw Holy Baptism primarily as Exodus, as liberation from death and demons by uniting to Christ Who is our Life and receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit as the new motivational force for life. By ignoring the role of death, and in many ways, by demonizing the body, the two remained at odds and Pelagius was denounced as a heretic while Augustine was seen to be a hero. Pelagius, who would be seen now as an extreme ascetic, believed the will to remain free from conditioning. No matter how many bad choices you made, no matter how bad your conditioning was, the will was free to start operating correctly at any time if you chose to use it well. Augustine took the extreme opposite position, that nature determined that the will persist willingly in evil continually. The fallout of this debate cannot be overestimated. As the dominant anthropological paradigm for the last 1600 years, and even now, as it has been adapted by modern atheists, a deterministic pessimistic anthropology reigns, or, a view like Pelagius's lives on. The nature- nurture debate is very much part of our heritage. All the while, Satan and death fade into the background and are ignored as explanatory causes for human depravity, suffering, and what we need salvation from and for. The remedies of Resurrection and living in the Spirit are forgotten medicines for the soul.