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Intent and motive still apply and the person must still be in control of his reason and faculties. The act must qualify within the three conditions for sin. In order that we can determine if our hypothetical person maintains any culpability for his acts, we address why he lost this ability to control. (medical causes notwithstanding).
Under the surface, if the inability that now manifests can be attributed to a primary cause to a free will choice by it’s proper definition, perhaps a strategy of influences that took years to have the subject arrive at this point, then inabilities to control could be evidence of compounding and the diminishing of the initial will to resist. Scripture warns of this. The subject is now suffering and culpable of the act, albeit now probably mostly in a temporal way. These things are hard to believe outside of the lab, but there is a spiritual element that is bent on our destruction and can tap into our physical nature. Evidence of cases of this first foothold into compounding abounds everywhere.
Andy
Intent and motive still apply and the person must still be in control of his reason and faculties. The act must qualify within the three conditions for sin. In order that we can determine if our hypothetical person maintains any culpability for his acts, we address why he lost this ability to control. (medical causes notwithstanding).
Under the surface, if the inability that now manifests can be attributed to a primary cause to a free will choice by it’s proper definition, perhaps a strategy of influences that took years to have the subject arrive at this point, then inabilities to control could be evidence of compounding and the diminishing of the initial will to resist. Scripture warns of this. The subject is now suffering and culpable of the act, albeit now probably mostly in a temporal way. These things are hard to believe outside of the lab, but there is a spiritual element that is bent on our destruction and can tap into our physical nature. Evidence of cases of this first foothold into compounding abounds everywhere.
Andy