"Anyone who has ever had children will know that it is a most Augustinian experience. Few if any parents of a three month old find Pelagius and his ilk to be particularly persuasive on the matter of human nature. Indeed, it is very hard not to believe in original sin at 3 am in the wee small hours when your child is screaming his lungs out and there is nothing - no food, no toy, no activity, no person - which can stop him. Babies are the most brutally honest of human beings: it really is all about them; and they make it very clear that they both believe that and practice such with a vengeance.
Infants are, in fact, the very embodiment of self-love. They want their immediate needs satisfied and they care nothing for anything or anybody else. Arguably, the process of growing up, of education in the broadest (and oldest) sense of the word, is the means by which the child comes to curb this utter self-centredness through its need to be part of wider society."
Carl Trueman, Ref 21
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"Few if any parents of a three month old find Pelagius and his ilk to be particularly persuasive on the matter of human nature."
Because the mothers work and leave their kids at daycare to pick up every nasty habit imaginable, or they have the grandparents spoil the kid. But honestly, how much more stupid of a statement could you have made? What, only single people are Pelagians? Get real. There are entire churches that are Pelagian -- and where did all those people come from? They didn't have parents, I guess, or everyone somehow skipped the age of 3. You Calvinists are such pitiable idiots.
And how is crying because you don't have food a sin? If you honestly consider that a sin, go get neutered you inhuman freak.
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