Did God create us unable to keep his law?
No, but because of the disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, all of creation is fallen; we are all born in sin and guilt, corrupt in our nature and unable to keep God’s law.
(New City Catechism)
The spirit is willing but the flesh languishes,
new laws created in place of old:
first, If you eat of this fruit you surely won’t die;
now, what I would do, I cannot do.
In the bone, this error: entwined
with the impulse behind flights to the sky,
yet sickened, wizened, good trees in bad soil,
good stunted and cast in wrong directions,
engines against the Almighty which,
in His will, could be engines of manifold grace,
but legacy bred too deep in the marrow
for any earthly good to remove.
The Consolations of Writing 