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ARTICLES OF FAITH
Article 2 - Original Sin and Total Depravity
We believe that God created man good, able to stand but liable to fall
that man fell from this pure estate and brought himself under condemnation and death
and that man is wholly unable to deliver himself from this condition.
1. The Condition of man prior to The Fall.
2. The Condition of man after The Fall.
3. The inability of man to rescue himself from the consequences of The Fall.
Scripture References:
Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
and over all the earth,and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Matthew 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Mark 3:28 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men,
and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:
John 5:29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil,
unto the resurrection of damnation.
Galatians 3:22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ
might be given to them that believe.
Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:
for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men,
for that all have sinned:
Psalms 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 1:12,13 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 5:40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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