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The Westminster Confession of Faith and Larger Catechism
1. Our first parents were led astray by the cunning temptation of Satan and sinned in eating the forbidden fruit.[1] It pleased God to allow them to sin, because in his wisdom and holiness he planned to order their sin to his own glory.[2]
[1] Gn 3:13, 2 Cor 11:3, Gn 3:1-14.
2. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and fellowship with God,[3] and so became dead in sin[4] and completely polluted in all their faculties and parts of body and soul.[5]
[3] Gn 3:6-8, Eccl 7:29, Rom 3:23, Gn 2:17.
[4] Gn 2:17, Eph 2:1-3, Rom 5:12,
[5] Ti 1:15, Gn 6:5, Jer 17:9, Rom 3:10-19, 8:6-8, Ps 58:1-5.
3. Since Adam and Eve are the root of all mankind, the guilt for this sin has been imputed to all human beings,[6] who are their natural descendants and have inherited the same death in sin and the same corrupt nature.[7]
[6] Gn 1:27-28, 2:16-17, Rom 5:12,15-19, Acts 17:26, 1 Cor 15:21-22,45,49.
[7] Ps 51:5, Gn 5:3, Jb 14:4, 15:14, Jn 3:6, Rom 3:10-18.
4. This original corruption completely disinclines, incapacitates, and turns us away from every good, while it completely inclines us to every evil.[8] From it proceed all actualized sins.[9]
[8] Rom 5:6, 7:18, 8:7, Col 1:21, Jn 3:6, Gn 6:5, 8:21, Rom 3:10-19.
[9] Jas 1:14-15, Eph 2:2-3, Mt 15:19.
5. During life on earth this corrupt nature remains in those who are regenerated,[10] and, although it is pardoned and deadened in Christ, yet it and all its impulses are truly and properly sinful.[11]
[10] 1 Jn 1:8,10, Rom 7:14, 17-18, 21-23, Jas 3:2, Prv 20:9, Eccl 7:20.
[11] Rom 7:5, 7-8, 25, Gal 5:17.
6. Every sin, both original and actual, transgresses the righteous law of God and brings guilt on the sinner.[12] Every sinner is consequently subjected to the wrath of God,[13] the curse of the law,[14] and death,[15] with all the resultant miseries, spiritual, temporal, and eternal.[16]
[12] 1 Jn 3:4, Rom 2:15, 3:9,19.
[16] Eph 4:18, Rom 8:20, Lam 3:39, Mt 25:41, 2 Thes 1:9, Rom 1:21-28, Lv 26:14ff, Dt 28:15ff.
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