sechel: arguing with someone who lived just a few hundred years ago, especially when you have someone like the Gra who actually called their teachings apikorsis, is not being an apikores. The idea of the Tzaddik being born without a yetzer hara and incapable of sinning is apikorses, because it says that there is no person who lives without sinning. We all have bechirah, even the Lubavitcher Rebbe had bechirah, and even he sinned at times.
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