A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part I: Questions about God, Man, and Sin

29. Q. What do we inherit from Adam as a result of this original sin?
      A. A sinful nature.

(Click through to read scriptural proofs.)

• 1 Kings 8:46

If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near….

• Psalm 14:2-3

The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man,
to see if there are any who understand,
who seek after God.

3 They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.

• Psalm 58:3

The wicked are estranged from the womb;
they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

• Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

• Matthew 15:18-20

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. 20 These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.

• John 2:24-25

But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people 25 and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

• Romans 8:7

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.

Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.

Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.

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