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Article 15: The Doctrine of Original Sin We believe that by the disobedience of Adam original sin has been spread through the whole human race.30It is a corruption of the whole human nature— an inherited depravity which even infects small infantsin their mother’s womb,and the root which produces in
Article 15, Original Sin. We believe that through the disobedience of Adam, original sin is extended to all mankind, which is a corruption of the whole nature and a hereditary disease. wherewith infants themselves are infected even in their mother's womb, and which produceth in man all sorts of
5.As Adam's spiritual life would have consisted in remaining united and bound to his Maker, so estrangement from him was the death of his soul. Nor is it strange that he who perverted the whole order of nature in heaven and earth deteriorated his race by his revolt. "The whole creation groaneth," sa
The ground taken by others of the schoohmen was that the loss of original righteousness left Adam precisely in the state in which he was created, and therefore in punk naturalibus (i.e., in the simple essential attributes of his nature). And as his descendants share his fate, they are born in the sa
Loathsome Stench Against the Pelagian heresy, Calvin appeals to Psalm 51 :5: "Surely there is no doubt that David confesses himself to have been 'begotten in iniquities, and conceived by his mother in sin '" (Inst., 2.1.5). The source and explanation of original sin is the transgres- sion of Adam.
The doctrine of original sin includes two main aspects: original pollution (or corruption) and original guilt. Original pollution refers to the transmission of Adam's polluted -- fallen and depraved -- nature to all of his descendants. Adam is the organic head or first father of the human race. He i
And being thus become wicked, perverse, and corrupt in all his ways, he hath lost all his excellent gifts which he had received from God . . .” “We believe that, through the disobedience of Adam, original sin is extended to all man- kind; which is a corruption of the whole nature, and an heredi
Thus far we discussed the fall of our first parents in Paradise, and we reached the conclusion that it was, indeed, a fall, and not merely an act of sin. By the first act of disobedience, consisting in eating of the forbidden tree, the nature of our first parents was corrupted. It was not merely wea
Pelagius, destitute of all idea of the organic wholeness of the race or of human nature, viewed Adam merely as an isolated individual; he gave him no representative place, and therefore his acts have no bearing beyond himself. In his view, the sin of the first man consisted in a single, isolated ac