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Shared Responsibility

Cornelius Plantinga, Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be

Plantinga asks “whether society at least shares in the responsibility for certain crimes against the vulnerable.” The point is not to dissolve personal accountability. It is to recognize that sin is both individual and systemic, and that the people of God must address both the heart and the structures that amplify harm.

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Personal sin and social complicity both matter. Neither cancels the other.

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