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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...

him from God.” Who has any doubt about this? Who would deny it, especially a Catholic Christian? A human being is a work of God, but the concupiscence of the flesh does not come from the Father, but from the world (1 Jn 2:16). If sin had not first been committed, a human being would be conceived without such concupiscence, and the sexual organs would calmly obey the will, just as the other members do. 18. But now, I beg you, look a bit more attentively at the term he found to cover over once again
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