Seven Effects of the Fall By this sin, [our first parents] fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed;39 and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation. (Westminster Confession of Faith, VI/ii–iii) In a real sense one could argue that