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We do not, then, believe that free will without God’s help is adequate for the worship offered by those initiated into the sacred mysteries.Rather, we acknowledge freedom of choice as a fully competent witness to divine fairness.When we must appear before Christ’s judgment seat and each receive what belongs to deeds done in the body, whether good or evil (2 Corinthians 5:10), God will be shown to judge nothing unjustly: he charges no one with a sin unless the person punished for it could also have avoided it.
Non ergo sine adiutorio Dei ad cultum eius, qualem exhibent initiati mysteriis, liberum arbitrium idoneum credimus, sed divinae aequitatis locupletem testem libertatem arbitrii confitemur, ut eo tempore, quo nos manifestari oportet ante tribunal Christi et recipere unumquemque propria corporis sicut gessit, sive bonum sive malum, nihil Deus iniuste iudicare doceatur, qui nulli imputat peccatum, nisi quod is, qui propter illud ponitur, potuit et cavere.