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Westminster Confession of Faith

Chapter 6: Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof

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Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit.
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This their sin God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.
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By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God,
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and so became dead in sin,
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and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.
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They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed,
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and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.
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From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good,
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and wholly inclined to all evil,
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do proceed all actual transgressions.
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This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated;
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and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself and all the motions thereof are truly and properly sin.
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Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto,
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doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner,
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whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God
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and curse of the law,
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and so made subject to death,
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with all miseries spiritual,
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temporal,
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and eternal.
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