Original sin

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For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.

God

Genesis 8:21

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Original sin Human nature

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God

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Genesis The Bible

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Religious literature

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Hebrew

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1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 8:21).

The whole world lieth in wickedness.

1st John 5:19

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Fallen world Original sin The world

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1st John The Bible

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Religious literature

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Greek

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95 90s 1st century

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st John 5:19).

Ye are fallen from grace.

Apostle Paul

Galatians 5:4

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Original sin The human condition

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Apostle Paul

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Galatians The Bible

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Religious literature

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Greek

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50 50s 1st century

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Galatians 5:4).

That Calvinistic sense of Innate Depravity and Original Sin, from whose visitations, in some shape or other, no deeply thinking mind is always and wholly free.

Herman Melville

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Original sin Human nature

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Herman Melville

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Hawthorne and His Mosses The Literary World

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Essay Magazine

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English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

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Melville, Herman. "Hawthorne and His Mosses." The Literary World. New York: Osgood and Company, 1850.

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Melville, Herman. "Hawthorne and His Mosses." Tales, Poems, and Other Writings. Modern Library, 2002.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Proverbs 20:9

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Sin Original sin Human nature

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Proverbs The Bible

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Religious literature

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Hebrew

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686 BC 680s BC 7th century BC

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Proverbs 20:9)

Is it not a fundamental error to consider children as innocent beings, whose little weaknesses may perhaps want some correction, rather than as beings who bring into the world a corrupt nature and evil dispositions, which it should be the great end of education to rectify?

Hannah More

Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education

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Original sin Human nature

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Hannah More

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Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education

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English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

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More, Hannah. Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. Vol. 1, London T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1799, ch. 2.

Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Apostle Paul

Romans 5:18-19

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Original sin Forgiveness of sins Salvation Jesus's death

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Apostle Paul

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Romans The Bible

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Religious literature

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Greek

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56 50s 1st century

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Romans 5:18-19).

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field.

Genesis 3:1

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The devil Original sin

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Genesis The Bible

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Religious literature

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Hebrew

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1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC

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Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 3:1).