Like Adam, they can make a choice between good or evil. This means that every human ever born replays the test of Adam and Eve in the Garden every person has to decide for obedience or disobedience to God's commands. Sin, said Pelagius, is not a condition, but a choice. If Pelagius is correct, how come there is so much bad and so little good in our world. According to Pelagius, we choose for sin by imitation.
Sin is universal because of imitation.
We all imitate the bad examples of our parents, brothers, sisters, wives or husbands, friends and associates. If only we had good examples to follow we all would choose good rather than evil Those two babies I mentioned earlier Zackariah Chase Featherstone and Saskia Ann Dragt will turn out perfect if only they have perfect examples to imitate. That's what Pelagius and Harold say. First, let me say that it flatly contradicts Scripture. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.