Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
and representative of the human race, all whom he represented inherit the guilt of his sin by
imputation. Man is dead and is incapable of even responding to God. This is known as “Total
Depravity”. Redemption by Jesus Christ is the only remedy which is given only to those
whomsoever Jesus chose since the sinner has no ability to choose any more.
John Calvin defined original sin in his Institutes of the Christian Religion as follows:
“Original sin, therefore, seems to be a hereditary depravity and corruption of our nature,
diffused into all parts of the soul, which first makes us liable to God's wrath, then also brings
forth in us those works which Scripture calls "works of the flesh" (Gal 5:19). And that is
properly what Paul often calls sin. The works that come forth from it – such as adulteries,
fornications, thefts, hatreds, murders, carousings – he accordingly calls "fruits of sin" (Gal
5:19–21), although they are also commonly called "sins" in Scripture, and even by Paul
himself.”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says:
By his sin Adam, as the first man, lost the original holiness and justice he had received from
God, not only for himself but for all humans.
Adam and Eve transmitted to their descendants human nature wounded by their own first sin
and hence deprived of original holiness and justice; this deprivation is called "original sin".
As a result of original sin, human nature is weakened in its powers, subject to ignorance,
suffering and the domination of death, and inclined to sin (this inclination is called
"concupiscence").
The Catholic Church teaches that every human person born on this earth is made in the image
of God. [54][55] Within man "is both the powerful surge toward the good because we are made in
the image of God, and the darker impulses toward evil because of the effects of Original
Sin." [56] Furthermore, it explicitly denies that we inherit guilt from anyone, maintaining that
instead we inherit our fallen nature. In this it differs from the Calvinism/Protestant position that
each person actually inherits Adam's guilt, and teaches instead that "original sin does not have
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