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What we call the Pelagian heresy actually took many forms, and had multiple proponents at different stages before it was officially condemned. Augustine, as bishop of Hippo, saw that these teachings were dangerous and set out to address them by explaining the true Church doctrine on these subjects. He first denounced the heresies verbally, in sermons and conferences. When a friend asked him to...

born from Adam, but not reborn in Christ. Why, then, does this man demand from us what he refuses to hear from the apostle, namely, “How does sin come to be in a little one? Does it come from the will or from marriage or from the parents?”63 Now let him hear how; let him hear how sin comes to be in a little one, and let him be quiet: Through the sin of the one, the apostle says, condemnation comes to all human beings (Rom 5:18). He said that all come to condemnation through Adam and all come to justification
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