Q26: How is original sin conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity?
A26: Original sin is conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity by natural generation, so as all that proceed from them in that way are conceived and born in sin.[1]
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- (Psa 51:5) Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.
- (Job 14:4) "Who can make the clean out of the unclean? No one!
- (Job 15:14) "What is man, that he should be pure, Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- (Joh 3:6) "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
