Catechesis: Original Sin

[Among the rejected positions] They teach that it is not true, as is sung in our churches, “Through Adam’s fall human nature and essence are completely corrupted.”* Instead, as tiny, small and insignificant as it might be, there is nevertheless something good left from our natural birth, such as the capability, aptitude, competence, or capacity to begin something or to effect something or to cooperate in spiritual matters.—SD I:23

*See Walther’s Hymnal #236.