This includes the causes of misguidance and error: whims in matters of religion and sensual desires—that is, religious innovation and worldly immorality.

These causes of misguidance and error—religious innovation and worldly immorality—are common to all the children of Adam because of the injustice and ignorance within them. Thus, through sin, a person wrongs himself and others by engaging in unlawful sexual intercourse, sodomy, or other acts; by drinking wine; or by violating property rights through criminal wrongdoing, theft, forcible seizure, and the like.

It is well known that although these sins are repugnant and blameworthy according to both reason and religion, human nature nevertheless desires them. Human souls characteristically dislike others enjoying something exclusively or having an advantage over them; rather, they wish