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Charles Hodge on Innate/Hereditary Sinfulness, etc.

Much discussion about races and nations and strengths and weaknesses of each is taking place today, in our nation and churches. At the bottom, I am going to share some of my own thoughts in light of a recent debate that took place in part on this subject. But first, below is (in part) what well-known Reformed and Presbyterian Theologian Charles Hodge said regarding our being morally culpable for sinful dispositions that we have inherited from our Ancestors and our hereditary (from his systematic Theology, Volume 2, Part 2, Sections 6ff). : Charles Hodge on Being Morally Culpable for Sinful Dispositions Even if Inherited from our Ancestors (He argues to deny this is to move toward Pelagianism/somewhere in between): Consciousness proves that Dispositions as distinguished from Acts may have Moral Character By the mere moral philosopher, and by theologians whose theology is a philosophy, it is assumed as an axiom, or intuitive truth, that a man is responsible only for what he has fu...