So babies can do good things without Christ? Talk about legalism....Christ emphatically states that "you can do nothing without Me". Babies do not have God's Spirit in him by birth. The new birth (i.e., to be born again) comes to those who accept the gospel.
Selfishness is iniquity. In modern language it is to be bent-to-self. Our bent is the reason we sin outwardly.
Selfishness is iniquity. In modern language it is to be bent-to-self. Our bent is the reason we sin outwardly.
So babies can do good things without Christ?
Selfishness is iniquity. In modern language it is to be bent-to-self. Our bent is the reason we sin outwardly.
Being born with a selfish human (bent-to-self) nature is a condition for which man is not guilty and hence will not be condemned.
Being a "lover of self" (2 Timothy 2:3) is a sin, for which man is guilty, and will be condemned.