They choose self over God. They choose the carnal flesh over God.
Two commandments of Love ....
Love God with all your heart and Love your neighbour as yourself.
If we love self more then God or self more then our neighbour, = sin.
The world is full of temptation and sin but that is not an excuse for sin.
Sin is a choice. If we had hearts like Angels and were not corrupted we would find it much easier to choose God over self. The flesh is connected with this world. The flesh vs the spirit, heaven vs this world...
Rom 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
1Pe 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1Jn 2:15-16
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Our flesh longs for the lusts of this world but we can choose.
Two commandments of Love ....
Love God with all your heart and Love your neighbour as yourself.
If we love self more then God or self more then our neighbour, = sin.
The world is full of temptation and sin but that is not an excuse for sin.
Sin is a choice. If we had hearts like Angels and were not corrupted we would find it much easier to choose God over self. The flesh is connected with this world. The flesh vs the spirit, heaven vs this world...
Rom 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
1Pe 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1Jn 2:15-16
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Our flesh longs for the lusts of this world but we can choose.
Neigh again! To basically everything you have said here.
Why did you not answer whether you were here under a different name?
Why did you not answer whether you were here under a different name?
Well exactly. The flesh is made of dust, literally earth. Thus giving into the flesh is giving into the world as indeed that scripture which I have also posted priorly does prove. We are also born of spirit though and this is our true self and is from God. So we do not inherit sin nor a sinful predisposition, but all sin and fall short by giving into the things of the earth whether that be the flesh, whether that be the emotions, whether that be some thing or some being that is of the earth. We learn sin from the earth be it from our parents or from our fleshly desires or from some entity of the earth or from the earthly societies and so on and so forth, but we are not born sinful nor do we inherit sin from these things, but we learn them and then have a choice to either follow God or else follow the earth. Yes, all will fall short and that is true, but in terms of the topic, no, God did not make us to sin and God did not tempt us by giving us a sinful predisposition as the false doctrine of Total Depravity would have us assume, but rather we were born good and without sin but fall short on our own accord when we learn sin and decide to give into the world, and therefore our sins are our own faults, not the fault of God nor the fault of another person or thing. So then taking all scriptures in harmony together we can conclude the doctrine of Total Depravity does not hold up to the Bible and the correct option in the OP is the first option. Really now as stated before, we'll just be repeating ourselves too much then to neigh-sayers who are essentially just arguing against the Bible since the topic then is thoroughly settled and proven with the scriptures and so there is no real need to continue on with it as it is now already descending into digressions into other topics or personal accusations and interrogations which we deign to not descend into with them. A good topic though for the run it did have and the chance to open up the scriptures and so I have decided to award your OP a thumbs up.