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    Without grace as the causal power enabling moral reform, ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The damned will sin continually

    Without grace as the causal power enabling moral reform, the structural conditions for continual sinning remain permanently in place.

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    • 1.Human willpower alone has demonstrably failed to produce sustained moral transformation across history and psychology.
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    • 2.Structural sin (embedded social patterns) requires external intervention to break, not merely internal effort or awareness.
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    • 3.Grace as transcendent power offers explanatory force for documented cases of radical moral reorientation.
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    • 1.Attributing moral failure to absence of grace unfalsifiably explains all failures, avoiding accountability for choice.
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    • 2.Humans demonstrate capacity for ethical reform through education, social support, and internal reflection without invoking grace.
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    • 3.Claiming structural sin permanence without grace contradicts evidence of moral progress in secular ethical frameworks.
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