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Total Hereditary Depravity?
This question is for Calvinists and others who believe in the doctrine of Total Depravity.
Does a Christian have this depravity removed at conversion? And if a Christian has his depravity removed, how does his children still inherit it if they were born after he was converted? If we can inherit the total depravity from our parents, why can’t we inherit the righteous nature from our parents?
If the "curse of sin" is removed, how can my kids inherit it from me?
The Westminster Confession of Faith states, “They (Adam and Eve) being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity, descending from them by ordinary generation. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.”
It is inherited from your parents who inherited it from their parents all the way up to Adam and Eve. How can you inherit something that is removed?
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- elyonLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
No, man is still depraved after conversion and remains in a continuous battle with the "old nature." Paul clearly tells us (under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit) in Romans 7 that "when I would do good, evil is present with me." What is "removed" is the curse of sin and we have "inherited" the rightousness of Christ through faith. This inheritance is granted to man in no other way than by the cross. "I am THE WAY....No man comes to the Father BUT BY ME." (John 14:6)
