{"id":12831,"date":"2009-02-05T06:17:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T06:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/05\/modalities-of-sin\/"},"modified":"2009-02-05T06:17:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T06:17:17","slug":"modalities-of-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/05\/modalities-of-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Modalities of Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Horace Jeffery Hodges asked me to comment on his post <a href=\"http:\/\/gypsyscholarship.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/divine-sovereignty-and-human-freedom.html\">Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom<\/a>.&#0160; Inasmuch as such commentary would require exegetical skills I do not possess, not to mention time I do not have &#8212; I am under the gun to finish an article for <em>The Monist<\/em> &#8212; I shall have to beg off.&#0160; Perhaps others can join in the discussion at Jeff&#39;s place.&#0160; But given my longstanding interest in matters modal, I was intrigued by the following quotation from Thomas Boston, courtesy of David C. Innes:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><font size=\"2\">State of Innocence &#8211; <em>posse peccare<\/em> (able to sin)<br \/>State of Sin &#8211; <em>non posse non peccare<\/em> (not able not to sin)<br \/>State of Grace &#8211; <em>posse non peccare<\/em> (able not to sin)<br \/>State of Glory &#8211; <em>non posse peccare<\/em> (not able to sin)<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horace Jeffery Hodges asked me to comment on his post Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom.&#0160; Inasmuch as such commentary would require exegetical skills I do not possess, not to mention time I do not have &#8212; I am under the gun to finish an article for The Monist &#8212; I shall have to beg off.&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/05\/modalities-of-sin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Modalities of Sin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modal-matters","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}