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Return to Scripture and see what your definitions lack. Man was not bruised by the Fall. Like Lazarus, man is spiritually dead to God. Only the regenerating hand of God can lift the corpse from death and turn his fallen will toward righteousness.

"As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one." -- Romans 3:10, 11, 12
"Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin. But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." -- Romans 3:21-24
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" -- Jeremiah 17:9
"But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." -- Isaiah 64:6

Neither the Jews nor the Gentiles could not keep the law perfectly. But God by His mercy sent a Savior to suffer and die for the sins of the elect, the only payment equal to the error.

"For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God." -- 1 Corinthians 1:21-24

The law written on the hearts of the Gentiles is able to save them exactly as the law the Jews strove to keep -- not at all.

Only God's grace saves anyone. To those who hear the Gospel, faith in Christ is the only salvation.

I am surprised the Roman Catholic view of Original Sin has been so watered down as for you to say it is merely a "wound." This wasn't always the case with Rome. They used to get that one right. 8~)

I am surprised the Roman Catholic view of Original Sin has been so watered down as for you to say it is merely a "wound." This wasn't always the case with Rome. They used to get that one right. 8~)

Oh, don't be surprised! It's right there in Augustine, the "Doctor of Grace"..see post 104. There was never any watering down, and in fact, the Orthodox are even more adamant on that point than we are.

Again, I repeat. We are in 100%, complete, total, unambiguous, undiluted agreement that God's grace is the only thing that saves. Anyone who says otherwise is a Pelagian and a heretic. And yes, neither the Jews nor the Gentiles were able to keep the law.

I will respond to the much-abused quote from Romans as soon as I get a chance.