inculpable

In this tradition, there is no inculpable or reasonable non-belief.

Inculpable ignorance is not a means of salvation.

"It may have been considered inculpable due to various exonerating circumstances, but it was never an approved act."

An example of an inculpable suicide, according to Rabbi Goldstein, is that which comes about as a reaction to extreme duress.

But if we say that inculpable ignorance cannot save a man, we thereby do not say that invincible ignorance damns a man.

Schellenberg introduced the distinction between culpable and inculpable nonbelief, where the latter is defined as "non-belief that exists through no fault of the non-believer."

What is at all costs to be avoided is the unfounded and demeaning assumption that the sexual behaviour of homosexual persons is always and totally compulsive and therefore inculpable."

He considers the distinction between culpable and inculpable nonbelief to be completely irrelevant, and tries to argue that the mere existence of nonbelief is evidence against the existence of God.

But if by no fault of the individual ignorance cannot be overcome (if, that is, it is inculpable and invincible), it does not prevent the grace that comes from Christ, a grace that has a relationship with the Church, saving that person.

In fact, to state that humans are inculpable for their sins is a contradiction in terms, for guilt is part of a sin's definition; if re-formulated to "there are no such things as sins, only bad actions inculpable", Christians generally will disagree.