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A Word About Original Sin

We will now take a look at our status as sinners prior to our life in Christ. Consider this brief additional doctrinal statement:

Apart from the salvation that Jesus obtained for me, I was God's enemy¹ and a sinner falling short of His glory². I was alienated from God³, dead in my wrongdoing and sin⁴, and an object of God's wrath⁵. As a human being I was born as a sinner⁶ through the disobedience of my fore-parents Adam and Eve⁷. Their attempt to know good and evil independently of God is the root of my own sin⁸. Although I deserved death and hell, Jesus has saved me and made me a joint heir with him. No righteous acts of mine would ever be able to atone, pay, or in any way compensate for my guilt before God⁹. Jesus saved me by God's grace and has made me a joint heir with him¹⁰. Amen.

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¹ Romans 5:10

² Romans 3:23

³ Colossians 1:21

⁴ Ephesians 2:1

⁵ Ephesians 2:3

⁶ Psalm 51:5 ; Romans 5:19

⁷ Genesis 3:1-24

⁸ Romans 5:12, 15

⁹ Isaiah 64:6; Ephesians 2:8-9 ; Titus 3:4-5

¹⁰ Romans 8:17

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