De Peccato Originis
Born with Sin
After Adam's fall, all humans are born with sin—lacking fear and trust in God and enslaved to disordered desire—bringing eternal death unless reborn through Baptism and the Holy Spirit.
Likewise, they teach that after Adam's fall, all human beings born into the world by natural descent are born with sin — that is, without any fear of God, without trust in God, and with disordered desire — and that this disease, or flaw of our origin, is truly sin, condemning and now also bringing eternal death to those who are not reborn through Baptism and the Holy Spirit.
Against the Pelagians
The confession condemns the Pelagians and others who deny that inherited depravity is truly sin and who claim that reason alone can justify a person before God.
They condemn the Pelagians and others who deny that the inherited defect is truly sin, and who—trying to diminish the glory of merit and of Christ's blessings—argue that a person can be justified before God by the powers of reason alone.
Read the original Latin
Item docent, quod post lapsum Adae omnes homines, secundum naturam propagati, nascantur cum peccato, hoc est, sine metu Dei, sine fiducia erga Deum, et cum concupiscentia, quodque hic morbus, seu vitium originis vere sit peccatum, damnans et afferens nunc quoque aeternam mortem his, qui non renascuntur, per baptismum et Spiritum sanctum.
Damnant Pelagianos, et alios, qui vitium originis negant esse peccatum et, ut extenuent gloriam meriti, et beneficiorum Christi, disputant hominem propriis viribus rationis coram Deo iustificari posse.
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