"It is my opinion that the majority of Christians overlook, deny or, at the very least, minimize the problems of what it means to be a fallen human being...professing Christians tend to think that the nature of humanity is basically good and is only thrown off course by the power of temptation...The Bible...teaches that man is an apostate creature, fallen from his original innocence...depraved...impacted by sin...As Milton said in Paradise Lost:
Into what depth thou seest
From what height fallen
(excerpted from "the book that helped end slavery in England. Now in modern language. Real Christianity by William Wilberforce originally published in 1797.)
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