“We all have inherited Adam and Eve’s fallen nature, which includes the ability and the propensity to sin … .
“Conception, which clothes us in the flesh, is the mechanism of transmission, the means by which Adam and Eve’s fallen nature (both physical and spiritual death) is transferred from generation to generation. The propensity for and susceptibility to sin are implanted in our nature at conception, just as death is” (Millet, Power of the Word, 73).