The Third and Fourth Points of Doctrine- ----Article 1- The Effect of the Fall on Human Nature--Man was originally created in the image of God and was furnished in his mind with a true and salutary knowledge of his Creator and things spiritual, in his will and heart with righteousness, and in all his emotions with purity- indeed, the whole man was holy. However, rebelling against God at the devil-s instigation and by his own free will, he deprived himself of these outstanding gifts. Rather, in their place he brought upon himself blindness, terrible darkness, futility, and distortion of judgment in his mind- perversity, defiance, and hardness in his heart and will- and finally impurity in all his emotions.----Article 2- The Spread of Corruption--Man brought forth children of the same nature as himself after the fall. That is to say, being corrupt he brought forth corrupt children. The corruption spread, by God-s just judgment, from Adam to all his descendants-except for Christ alone-not by way of imitation -as in former times the Pelagians would have it- but by way of the propagation of his perverted nature.----Article 3- Total Inability--Therefore, all people are conceived in sin and are born children of wrath, unfit for any saving good, inclined to evil, dead in their sins, and slaves to sin- without the grace of the regenerating Holy Spirit they are neither willing nor able to return to God, to reform their distorted nature, or even to dispose themselves to such reform.