human
Then you admit original sin?
gpt
I am obliged to admit it, because it exists. What are heredity and atavism, save, under another name, the terrible sin of the beginning?
human
And does it appear to you just that innocent generations should make amends now and always for the sin of the first man?
gpt
This law is so iniquitous that it seems as if the Creator were ashamed of it, and that in order to punish Himself for His ferocity, and not to make Himself for ever execrated by His creature, He wished to suffer on the Cross, and expiate His crime in the person of His own Son.
human
But, cried Durtal, exasperated,
gpt
God could not commit a crime and punish Himself: were that so, Jesus would be the Redeemer of His Father, and not ours; it is madness!