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created out of nothing
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diagnosis
Jiang interprets Augustine to mean humans are a failed creation from dust and therefore easily swayed by Satan.
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The solution is complete obedience to the church because the inner spark supposedly leads only to evil.
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A student asks whether the original Jesus allows mistakes; Jiang contrasts Jesus' forgiveness with Catholic refusal to tolerate error.
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"Yeah, so you will make mistakes. Right? Yeah. So Jesus says it's okay to make mistakes. It's okay to screw up. You'll be forgiven...."
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"Thus the evil act, the transgression of eating the forbidden fruit, was committed only when those who did it were already evil. That bad..."
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"Yet man did not fall away to the extent of losing all being. But when he had turned towards himself, his being was less..."
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"...it certainly could not have happened. But only a nature created out of nothing could have been destroyed by a fault. Consequently, although the..."
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"...tells us that we are created out of dust. We're created out of nothing, okay? In other words, we are a failed science experiment...."
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"...ourselves? Because we were created out of dust. We were created out of nothing. Alright? If we're an angel, we're created by God. And..."
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"...greatest force in the universe because it is God we're created out of nothing no we're created out of God okay God is in..."
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"...Adam. The Adam's rib, basically. So he's creating us out of nothing. And this was an experiment. And because we were created out of..."
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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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