Luther and Calvin agreed that humans inherit Adamic guilt and are in a state of sin from the moment of conception. This sinful nature results in a complete alienation from God and the total inability of humans to achieve reconciliation with God. Not only do individuals inherit a sinful nature due to Adam's fall, all whom he represented inherit the guilt of his sin by imputation. Protestants believe that God the Father sent Jesus into the world. The personhood, life, ministry, suffering, and death of Jesus, as God incarnate in human flesh, is meant to be the atonement for original sin as well as actual sins; this atonement is according to some rendered fully effective by the Resurrection of Jesus.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin#Original_sin_in_mainstream_Protestantism
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