The Christian context raised other questions about faculties. Which faculties are sinful? Which faculties can be saved? The body, emotions, feelings, desires, and will are all fallen and incapable of saving the soul. But something must respond to God and be saved. Logically, this must be whatever part makes a choice. Many people concluded that the will could be saved but the rest of the human being would only take us to hell. (Not everyone agreed, of course.) Fallen faculties would not produce godliness, the argument went, so God must work through the will. Since Scripture says that God saves
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