without trust in God, and with concupiscence. And they teach that this disease or original fault43 is truly sin, which even now damns and brings eternal death to those who are not born again through baptism and the Holy Spirit. They condemn the Pelagians and others who deny that the original fault is sin and who, in order to diminish the glory of Christ’s merits and benefits, argue that human beings can be justified before God by their own powers of reason.44 [III. Concerning the Son of God] Likewise,
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