Direct translation from Mona Chollet: For Julian of Eclanum, a disciple of Pelagius, the current human condition is not the result of a fault. Children are born innocent. Human beings are free in their actions and are not doomed to evil. Sex is not a sin. While Augustine believed that without the fault of Adam and Eve, death would not exist, Julian saw death not as a punishment, but simply as a fact of nature. The idea that Adam’s sin could have changed the very structure of the universe seemed implausible to him: “The merits of a single individual are not valuable enough to disturb all the laws of nature.”
References
Chollet, M. (2024). Résister à la culpabilisation: Sur quelques empêchements d’exister. [Online]. Available at: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=RkEYEQAAQBAJ&pli=1 [Accessed 27 April 2025].