Origen on sinful nature and habit

"[...]Celsus seems to me to be quite wrong, since he does not allow the possibility of a complete change with people who have sinned by nature and who do this out of habit, and thinks that they are not even to be healed by punishment. It seems clear that all men have a natural tendency to sin, and that some not only have a natural tendency, but sin also by habit. But it is not true that all men are incapable of a complete change." (Con. Cel. III,66)

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