were free from sin; third, that newly born infants are in the same condition as Adam was before the fall; fourth, that man can be without sin and can observe all the commandments of God if he wants to; and fifth, that infants have eternal life, even though they are not baptized.3 The most important and fundamental principle of Pelagianism, which was evidently based on the Stoic conception of human nature, consisted in the affirmation of the moral strength and self-sufficiency of man’s free will.