By nature a person, because of original sin, is not acceptable to God and is subject to judgment and damnation. In order to be saved, he must be born again through Baptism and faith.
Eph. 2:3: We were by nature the children of wrath even as others.
Joh. 3:5-6: Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
The Lutheran Confessions: “Since the fall of Adam, all men begotten in the natural way are born with sin, that is, without the fear of God, without trust in God, and with concupiscence; and that this disease, or vice of origin, is truly sin, even now condemning and bringing eternal death upon those not born again through Baptism and the Holy Ghost.” (Augsburg Confession II).
