I have never seen the necessity of reformation in this respect. Were I to live my life over again, I think that with the experience of more than forty years in revival labors I should under the same circumstance use substantially the same measures that I did then. It was no wisdom of my own that directed me. I had no doubt then nor have I ever had that God led me by his Spirit to take the course I did. In his famous address Concio ad Clerum, Taylor rejected the Westminster Confession's doctrine of original sin.
Sin always is a deliberate moral choice as has no pre-existence to the choice.
One always has the power of contrary choice. This theology blended perfectly with the revival techniques of Finney. Again, Finney's representation of their ideas was extravagant, but their alterations in Edwards's theology diminished the direct connection between original sin and the sinner's sinning, and made it appear that each individual's sin arose from the decree and over-ruling providence of God. That the theological tendencies of Finney were not clear at this time probably contributed to the focus of the discussion on method more than doctrine and also explains some of the support he received from settled pastors who believed the Westminster Confession. Finney, Memoirs, pp.