We confess that we are by nature sinful and unclean. In accordance with Holy Scripture and with all of Christendom, we confess that we are not sinners because we sin, but rather that, we sin because we, by our very nature, are sinners. Not only do we commit transgressions against both God and our neighbors, but we were sinful since the moment of our conception in the womb due to original sin inherited from our first sinful parents, Adam and Eve.
We confess that all sin, both original sin and the sin that we commit in our daily lives, separates us from our Holy God and that we are condemned to hell eternally apart from faith in the life-giving and fully atoning blood of Christ, which takes away the sin of the world.
