De Causa Peccati
The Origin of Sin
Although God creates and preserves nature, the cause of sin is the will of the wicked, which turns away from God when He does not help it.
On the cause of sin, they teach that even though God creates and preserves nature, the cause of sin is the will of the wicked — that is, of the devil and of the ungodly — which, when God does not help it, turns itself away from God, just as Christ says in John.✦ 8. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from himself.✦
Read the original Latin
De causa peccati docent, quod tametsi Deus creat et conservat naturam, tamen causa peccati est voluntas malorum, videlicet, diaboli et impiorum, quae non adiuvante Deo, avertit se a Deo, sicut Christus ait Ioan. 8. Cum loquitur mendacium, ex seipso loquitur.
Scripture echoes
- ↩John.8.44 — You are of your father the devil, and you desire to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.
- ↩John.8.44 — You are of your father the devil, and you desire to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.
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