Being tempted is not sinning.
i never said it was.
Man is born with an inclination to sin, children do sin, but are not yet accountable for their actions.
of course we have a nature to sin, we also have a nature to reject sin as well as do works for the Lord, and lastly we have a choice to decide which way to go.
original sin is the idea that we are being held accountable for the sin of others. by definition thats an innocent person being punished and is in itself, the shedding of innocent blood, an act the Almighty says He hates.
There are instances of children serving in WW2 for both the allied and the axis. Children even rob people. If you dig around on Google you can a story about a kid who cut another kid in half. So the only question here is when will a child start to sin.
if you dig deep enough you can find anything, are these occurrences normal, no, they are very far from normal. i have never seen a child do any of these things, but i see adults doing these things non stop. if we were truely born with this sinfulness, we should see kids doing these things all the time no different than the adults, but we dont.
When Jesus says to accept the Gospel like children does that mean we must be sinless to accept the Gospel? No way.
maybe because kids dont give themselves brain damage from worrying non stop over whats a sin and whats not a sin, kids live in the moment, they live like the birds and the lilies of the fields that Jesus taught us about.