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pagetitle: How is original sin conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity?
date: February 19, 2020
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#### Larger Catechism
<span class="q">Q 26.</span> How is original sin conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity?
<span class="q">A.</span> 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.[^fnref:wlc1]
[^fnref:wlc1]: <div class="esv"><h5>Psalm 51:5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19051005.01-1">Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and in sin did my mother conceive me.</p> </div> </div><h5>Job 14:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p18014004.01-2">Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?<br /> <span class="indent"></span>There is not one.</p> </div> </div><h5>John 3:6</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p43003006.01-3"><span class="woc">That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.</span> (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>