... the first sin. That original sin caused more to humanity than just the lost intimate relationship with God. In Henry Blocher's book Original Sin, he quotes John Calvin writing of the definition of original sin is, "hereditary, depravity, and corruption of our nature, diffused into all parts of the soul ... In the garden, before the fall, Adam had a type of intimacy with God that will not be felt until we are taken to heaven on the day of the Second Coming. After the fall though, our intellectual faculties have become so impaired and dishonored that our understanding is very incapable .....

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