Our first parents, in their original state, were upright. They naturally preferred and desired to obey their creator and had no preference or desire to transgress His will until they were influenced and inclined by Satan to disobey God’s commands. Previous to this, the only tendency of their nature was to do righteousness. As a consequence of their first transgression, the state under which the posterity of Adam came into the world is so different from that of Adam that they do not have that righteousness and purity that Adam had before the fall; they are not willing to obey God but are inclined to do evil. Hence, none, by any natural goodness and mere work of their own, can become the children of God (Genesis 1:26-31; 3: 1-7; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Psalms 51:5; John 6: 44; Romans 5:12-21; I Corinthians 2:14).