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    Pelagius, drawing on consistent patristic sources, argued... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Human beings beget guilty, not innocent, children.

    Pelagius, drawing on consistent patristic sources, argued that each soul is created directly by God and therefore cannot inherit moral guilt from biological ancestors.

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    • 1.Divine creation of individual souls suggests each person begins in a morally neutral state, independent of genealogical circumstances.
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    • 2.Moral responsibility requires causal agency; inherited guilt would punish individuals for actions they did not perform.
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    • 3.Multiple patristic sources (Origen, Gregory of Nyssa) affirm soul creation and reject corporate moral transmission.
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    • 1.Augustine and the Western tradition argue human nature itself is corrupted, not requiring guilt-inheritance for moral disability.
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    • 2.Empirical observations of inherited trauma and psychological damage suggest moral-spiritual legacies do transmit across generations.
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    • 3.Pelagius's framing sidesteps how structural sin and institutional evil persist through communities beyond individual soul creation.
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