To Florus · §1.123

To Florus 1.123

Evil is therefore not inherent in nature, and God cannot create guilty people or place them in the devil's kingdom. These conclusions show you to be a Manichaean, indeed worse than a Manichaean. They also make clear that humanity enters this world without sin, that the fruit of human fertility is under God's authority rather than the devil's, and that nature is innocent.

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