Translations:Original sin/11/en
The most important implication of original sin is that because we are descended from Adam, we bear his permanently flawed nature. “Man ... does not have it in his power to be good,” writes Augustine.[1] He believed that we are no more capable of doing good than a monkey is of speaking. We can do good through grace alone.
- ↑ Augustine, On Free Choice of the Will 3.18, quoted in T. Kermit Scott, Augustine: His Thought in Context (New York: Paulist Press, 1995), pp. 136–37.