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    Challenges→A responsible choice in God's favor requires that we sin.

    If experiential sinning were necessary for genuine moral understanding, then saints and morally exemplary persons would be epistemically deficient relative to habitual sinners, which is absurd.

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    Epistemically deficient(describes someone who is inferior in their ability to know or understand something)
    Lacking in knowledge or understanding; not knowing as much as you should about something.
    Experiential(as describing whether a harm can be felt or experienced)
    Related to things you actually feel, sense, or live through—as opposed to things that happen in theory or don't affect your actual experience.
    Habitual sinners(contrasted with saints as people who sin often)
    People who regularly and repeatedly do things considered morally wrong; people in the habit of doing bad things.
    Saints(used as the opposite example of people who sin)
    People recognized as exceptionally good and moral; people who are considered holy or morally perfect.
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    (the act of committing moral wrongs)
    Acting in ways that violate moral or religious rules; doing something considered seriously wrong.
    absurd(Camus 1955: 12)
    The discrepancy between the human mind's demand for fundamental meaning and the world's failure to provide answers
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs

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