Although it is proper to each individual, 295 Original Sin does not have the Character of a Personal fault in any of Adam's descendants. It is a deprivation of Original Holiness and Justice, but human Nature has not been totally corrupted: it is wounded in the Natural powers proper to it, Subject to ignorance, suffering and the dominion of death, and inclined to Sin - an inclination to Evil that is called concupiscence". Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ's Grace, erases original sin and turns a man back Towards God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist in man and summon him to spiritual battle.