Every person is born into this world fallen and depraved. We are guilty in Adam as he was our representative in the beginning. We are also guilty because we descend from him and inherit both his sin and his sinful proclivity.
There is not a part of us or of our make up that is not affected by the fall. We are fallen physically and spiritually, in our thinking and in our consciences, in every part of us.
The fact of this total depravity must be borne in mind in all our dealings with one another. No-one is totally mired in sin so that there is no good seen but no-one is free from the taint of sin either.
