Schellenberg addresses this difference with his distinction between culpable and " inculpable " nonbelief, with the latter defined as " non-belief that exists through no fault of the non-believer ."
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But if by no fault of the individual ignorance cannot be overcome ( if, that is, it is inculpable and invincible ), it does not prevent the grace that comes from Christ, a grace that has a relationship with the Church, saving that person.
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Paul Helm explains, " Calvin s use of the term'sense'signals that the knowledge of God is a common human endowment; mankind is created not only as capable of knowing God, but as actually knowing him . " According to this tradition, there is no inculpable or nonresistant nonbelief.
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If we discussed the matter together, we could surely agree that what the document says is that the tendency does not make homosexual activity " totally " inculpable and, moreover, that the document does not say, as claimed, that the activity is always the result of " deliberate choice ", but only that some degree of freedom remains.
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:: : * " Inculpable ignorance is not a means of salvation . [ 21 ] But if by no fault of the individual ignorance cannot be overcome ( if, that is, it is inculpable and invincible ), it does not prevent the grace that comes from Christ, a grace that has a relationship with the Church, saving that person.
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:: : * " Inculpable ignorance is not a means of salvation . [ 21 ] But if by no fault of the individual ignorance cannot be overcome ( if, that is, it is inculpable and invincible ), it does not prevent the grace that comes from Christ, a grace that has a relationship with the Church, saving that person.
