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nothingness
Term or model used in this packet's account of Paul, Christianity, Roman power, or church doctrine.
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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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"...to lose all being, but it is to come near to nothingness. That is why the proud are given another name, in holy scripture...."
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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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