means that from birth they are full of evil lust and inclination and cannot by nature possess true fear of God and true faith in God. [2] Moreover, this same innate disease and original sin37 is truly sin and condemns to God’s eternal wrath all who are not in turn born anew through baptism and the Holy Spirit. [3] Rejected, then, are the Pelagians38 and others who do not regard original sin as sin in order to make human nature righteous through natural powers, thus insulting the suffering and merit