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41 23. H O W D O E S O R I G I N A L S I N A F F E C T E V E R Y H U M A N C R E AT U R E ? It means that every person is now born A. without the ability to fear and love God—we are spiritually blind and dead; 54 1 Corinthians 2:14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. Read Romans 8:7 and Ephesians 2:1–3. B. with an endless desire to sin—we are enemies of God; 55 Genesis 8:21 And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in His heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Nei- ther will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done." Read Matthew 7:17–20 and Galatians 5:19. C. deserving God's temporal and eternal death sentence; 56 Romans 5:12 Therefore just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men be- cause all sinned. 57 Ephesians 2:3 [We] were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. Read Romans 5:12–19. D. enslaved in a lifelong sinful condition from which we cannot free ourselves. 58 John 8:34 Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin." Note: Christians are at the same time saints and sinners who con- tinue to struggle daily against sin. Read Romans 7:14–25, where Paul describes this ongoing strug- gle against sin.