impeccability
Sign in to saveImpeccability is an inability to sin, while sinlessness refers to an absence of actual sin. The Abrahamic religions teach impeccability to be an attribute of God. Logically God cannot sin: it would mean that God would act against God's own will and nature. Impeccability is therefore also attributed to Jesus Christ in Christianity. The Letter to the Hebrews asserts that Christ "did not sin". Islam further teaches a concept of , the sinlessness or impeccability of prophets, which has been compared to Papal infallibility in early Catholic doctrine.
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- Biblical and apocryphal writings
- Roman Catholic teachings
- The Virgin Mary
- Papacy
- Afterlife
- Protestant teaching
- Pelagianism
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Impeccability is an inability to sin, while sinlessness refers to an absence of actual sin. The Abrahamic religions teach impeccability to be an attribute of God. Logically God cannot sin: it would mean that God would act against God's own will and nature. Impeccability is therefore also attributed to Jesus Christ in Christianity. The Letter to the Hebrews asserts that Christ "did not sin". Islam further teaches a concept of , the sinlessness or impeccability of prophets, which has been compared to Papal infallibility in early Catholic doctrine.
==Biblical and apocryphal writings== In the New Testament, the Letter to the Hebrews asserts that Jesus Christ "did not sin".