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Okay, here we are with this follow-up

on what we were talking about with respect to original sin

and its effects on human nature.

This is going to require some surveying because, as you may have noticed,

any discussion of sin presupposed that we say something about evil,

because sin is a particular kind of evil.

And to talk about evil, presuppose that we say something about creation or the good without which is a context evil doesn't make any sense now notice that if we're talking about sin

we have to keep in mind that the concept is unintelligible outside of the context of the human person

created in God's image. That is the good that is destroyed by sin or vitiated by sin. Now,

notice that we can have there under the person subheading, this business of the effects of original sin on human nature.

Now, this is worth pausing for just a few reasons.

One of them is that this matter has proved remarkably divisive in Christian history.

Most recently at the Protestant Reformation, but the history of debates on this matter is long.

Notice that no small number of Christian thinkers, the reformers, especially Luther, Calvin, are the big names here,

held quite seriously that the image of God was destroyed in the fall.

We are no longer in the image of God.

Now notice that if we understood the image of God to reside in the soul,

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