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In addition to saying that evil thoughts in the heart produce sin, Jesus said that “all these evil things come from within and they defile the man  (Mark 7:21).”

[ Notably,  think^group₃(sin₂(conscience^lacking₁)) denies the natural consequences, the law^essential₃, that contextualizes transgressions.  Law^denial₃ brings sin₂ into relation with dispositions₁.  The moral religious nested form empowers the natural philosophic nested form.

Does the denial of law^essential₃ and the resulting trained dispositions equate to “defilement”?

Consider leprosy, a classic Scriptural sign of defilement.  Some types of leprosy consist in “the loss of the feeling of touch” through disease.  The person is not aware ‘he’ is injuring ‘himself’.  So injuries continue until tissue breaks down.

In parallel, the sinner loses ‘his’ “sense of touch” by habitually denying law^essential.

The sinner loses touch with think^divine₃( virtue₂( conscience^free₁)).]