Blessed Augustine

Definition

The Western (Augustinian and Catholic) doctrine that all humans share in the guilt of Adam’s personal sin, inherited through seminal transmission.

Romans 7:14-24 — For we know that the law is spiritual—but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin. For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want—instead, I do what I hate. But if I do what I don’t want, I agre
Job 14:4 — *Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one! *
Romans 5:12 — So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned—
Romans 5:14 — *Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed. *
Acts 17:26 — *From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live, *
Psalm 51:5 — Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.