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That human beings universally are not theists in anything like the sense of "theism" sensu stricto is clear enough. Therefore, if they can be said to be theists at all, it is only in a broader, heuristic sense of "theism."

But theists in at least that sense they must be said to be, because sin in the proper sense of aversion from God toward the creature is not a necessary structural defect of our humanity, but a contingent fault for which each and everyone every one of us is responsible. So, at any rate, Paul reasons in Romans 1:18-32.

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