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Consider the distinction, found in theology, between a sinner’s physical ability to love<\/em> and his moral inability for love<\/em>.<\/p>\n The sinful man possesses both.<\/p>\n [But what are the meanings, presences and messages underlying the word \u2018love\u2019?<\/p>\n Eros<\/em>? Agape<\/em>? Does \u2018love\u2019 mean whatever I want it to mean<\/em>? Is it whatever our flawed imaginations project onto the word?<\/p>\n Schoonenberg argued that, since we are born into sinful situations, our choices are constrained by conditions. We do not know any different. If our world does not fashion full love or complete virtue, how are we to choose them?<\/p>\n In short, we are \u2018free to choose\u2019 but \u2018true love\u2019 and \u2018true virtue\u2019 do not appear to be options.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summary of text [comment] page 77 Consider the distinction, found in theology, between a sinner’s physical ability to love and his moral inability for love. The sinful man possesses both. [But what are the meanings, presences and messages underlying the word \u2018love\u2019? Eros? Agape? Does \u2018love\u2019 mean whatever I want it to mean? Is it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n