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Jiang's gloss on Augustine's explanation of why a perfect God can create sinful humans: humans come from nothing and must move toward God by obedience.
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Creation out of nothing
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...could not have happened. But only a nature created out of nothing could have been destroyed by a fault. Consequently, although the will drives..."
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Jiang says Augustine solves the contradiction between perfect God and sinful humans by saying humans were created out of nothing and therefore contain nothingness and sin.
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"...not have happened. But only in nature could it have happened. Nothing could have distorted by a fault. Consequently, although the will derives its..."
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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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"...could not have happened. But only a nature created out of nothing could have been destroyed by a fault. Consequently, although the will drives..."
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"...falling away from its true being is due to its creation out of nothing."
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"...falling away from its true being is due to its creation out of nothing."
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"Its creation out of nothing. So the question then is, if God created us, why are we so bad? And the answer is, because..."
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