●   ●   ●    first sin all his natural posterity come into the world personal sinners totally depraved and morally unable to do anything acceptable to god until they are renewed by the Holy Spirit. ” 3 This was a stern reception for a newborn child: to be greeted as a bundle of total depravity destined for damnation unless God should arbitrarily have chosen it for renewal when and if it lived to an age when penitence and conversion became possible.