Articles of Faith: Of the Fall of Man We believe that man was created in innocence under the law of His Maker, but by voluntary transgression fell from his sinless and happy state, in consequence of which all mankind are now sinners, not by constraint, but of choice, and therefore under just condemnation without defense or excuse.
Romans 1:18, 20, 28, 32
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28. And even as they did not like to
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Romans 3:10-19 10. As it is written, There is none
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11. There is none that
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12. They are all
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13. Their throat is an open
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14. Whose mouth is full of
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15. Their feet are swift to
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17. And the
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18. There is no
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19. Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every
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Romans 5:12, 19 12. Wherefore, as by one man
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19. For as by one man's
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Galatians 3:22 22. But the
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Ephesians 2:1,3 1. And you hath he
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3. Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the
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