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The passage and Jiang's gloss reduce redemption to two possibilities: God pardons through mercy alone, or humanity somehow makes payment for its own folly.
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Payment
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...had to pardon man, or of himself, man had to proffer payment for his folly."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...had to pardon man, or of himself, man had to proffer payment for his folly."
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Jiang says human beings cannot realistically make amends for original sin on their own, which is why the self-payment route immediately becomes the problem the class has to think through.
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"...had to pardon man, or of himself, man had to proffer payment for his folly."
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"Okay, all right. So, okay, what you're saying here is, okay, we screwed up, and this is the worst thing that we could have..."
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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