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Jiang reads Augustine's Adam and Eve as saying they were not tricked by the serpent and not simply curious; they were already evil because their pride made them want to become God.
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Evil Will
Jiang reads Augustine's Adam and Eve as saying they were not tricked by the serpent and not simply curious; they were already evil because their pride made them want to become God.
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"...they would not have arrived at the evil act if an evil will had not preceded it why did they do this evil act..."
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"that's important to understand they were not tricked by the serpent they were not curious they were just evil for pride is the start..."
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"...is this moral truth where if you do evil onto others, evil will come onto you."
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"...So he's done evil onto Patroclus. And because he's done that, evil will now come onto Achilles. Okay? So, yeah. So we think prophets..."
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"...is by far the worst in Poland. Therefore it stands that evil will open from the north. Everything else will be revealed from there..."
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"...Now, could anything but pride have been the start of the evil will? For pride is the start of every kind of sin."
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"...is in the world of today, psychopaths will always war. Only evil will war because that's just the structure of this universe. In this..."
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"...So the concept here is karma, right? If you do evil, evil will come to you, okay? So it's important to maintain harmony. All..."
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"Could anything but pride happen at the start of the evil will? Why did we disobey God? Why did we eat that fruit? Because..."
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"...will happen to you. If you do evil in the world, evil will happen to you. It may not happen to you, but it..."
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"...now could anything but pride have been the start of the evil will? And the idea here is, if left to our own devices,..."
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"...knows what good is pride will be the start of the evil will no pride is who we are we all strive to be..."
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A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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