Corruption
Langerak provides a comprehensive theological analysis of corruption as a fundamental degenerative power affecting all creation, tracing its origin to Satan's fall and Adam's sin, and connecting this doctrine to the Reformed understanding of total depravity. Drawing extensively from Scripture and the Belgic Confession and Canons of Dort, he demonstrates how corruption operates across multiple dimensions—physical, moral, and spiritual—as the consequence of humanity's separation from God. This article offers a systematic exegetical treatment of how the bondage of corruption described in Romans 8:21 penetrates and corrupts human nature in its entirety.
Our misery is that the whole of creation is held captive by a destructive, pervasive, and inexorable power. This power is the bondage of corruption (Rom. 8:21). Corruption is any degenerative process that mars, ruins, destroys, or renders something unfit or useless. And there are many kinds. The moth corrupts garments by eating (James 5:2). Rust corrupts riches by corrosion (Matt. 6:19). A corrupt tree corrupts its fruit by rot (Matt. 7:17). Disease corrupts the body (Ps. 38:5). Pride corrupts...
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