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and condemnation - apart from any actual sins they personally commit.

In contrast, Pelagianism states that humans enter life as moral "blank slates" (tabulae rasae) responsible for their own moral nature. The Fall that occurred when Adam and Eve disobeyed God affected humankind only minimally as it established a negative moral precedent.

A third line of thinking takes an intermediate position, asserting that since the Fall the

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