Original sin

===Jehovah's Witnesses===
According to the theology of [[Jehovah's Witnesses]], all humans are born sinners, because of inheriting sin, corruption, and death from Adam. They teach that Adam was originally created perfect and sinless, but with free will; that [[the Devil]], who was originally a perfect [[angel]], but later developed feelings of pride and self-importance, seduced [[Eve]] and then, through her, persuaded Adam to disobey God, and to obey the Devil instead, rebelling against God's sovereignty, thereby making themselves sinners, and because of that, transmitting a sinful nature to all of their future offspring.<ref name="proclaimers144">{{cite book|title=Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom|year=1993|publisher=Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society|pages=144–145}}</ref><ref name=WDtBRT32>{{cite book|title=What Does the Bible Really Teach?|year=2005|page=32|publisher=Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society}}</ref> Instead of destroying the Devil right away, as well as destroying the disobedient couple, God decided to test the loyalty of the rest of humankind, and to prove that they cannot be independent of God successfully, but are lost without God's laws and standards, and can never bring peace to the earth, and that Satan was a deceiver, murderer, and liar.<ref name="WT 1973">"The Watchtower 1973, page 724" – "Declaration and resolution", ''The Watchtower'', 1 December 1973, p. 724.</ref>

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that all humans possess "inherited sin" from the "one man" Adam, and teach that verses such as Romans 5:12–22, Psalm 51:5, Job 14:4, and 1 Corinthians 15:22 show that humanity is born corrupt and dies because of inherited sin and imperfection, and that inherited sin is the reason and cause for sickness and suffering, made worse by the Devil's wicked influence. They believe Jesus is the "[[second Adam]]", being the sinless [[Son of God]] and the [[Messiah]], and that he came to undo Adamic sin; and that salvation and everlasting life can only be obtained through faith and obedience to the second Adam.<ref name="proclaimers144"/><ref name=WDtBRT32/><ref name="WT 1973"/><ref>{{cite book| last=Penton|first=M.J.|title=Apocalypse Delayed|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=1997|pages=26–29|isbn=9780802079732}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|journal=The Watchtower|date=15 January 2006|page=7|title=Angels—How They Affect Us}}</ref><ref>[http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200000089 ADAM] – ''jw.org.'' Retrieved 10 January 2013.</ref>{{Excessive citations inline|reason=There's 6 citations for this sentence, but there should be just one.|date=October 2022}} They believe that "sin" is "missing the mark" of God's standard of perfection, and that everyone is born a sinner, due to being the offspring of sinner Adam.<ref>[http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/submission/adams-sin/ Adam's Sin] – The Time for True Submission to God – ''jw.org.'' Retrieved 10 January 2013.</ref>