we inherit pollution from Adam—or corruption—but guilt arises only from our own acts of disobedience. You’ll notice that this is similar in a number of ways to the Pelagian interpretation we talked about earlier. On this view, we receive a corruption of nature from Adam, but we are not considered guilty and condemned in him—that is, on the basis of his original sin—but we are guilty only on the basis of our actual sin. So the reason this view is called mediate imputation is this: Guilt is mediated