You don't need to teach a child how to lie or steal before they start doing so. Eve didn't need to be taught how to eat the fruit either. She was chose to do it because she was drawn away by her natural passions and desires. Likewise a young child comes into the world subject to their natural passions and desires in complete ignorance of right and wrong. As their intellect develops and they begin to reason it then becomes possible for the child to suppress the commandment (conscience or direct command) and rebel. It has nothing to do with some sin nature passed down from parent to child.
However, as per Matthew 19:14, Jesus said that little children will inherit the kingdom of God because they are not yet accountable for their wrongdoings until they reach a certain age, which is between them and God. Little children are not in rebellion.
This inherited sin nature does not excuse willful disobedience to God. Yes it does because this inherited sin nature necessitates actual sin taking place. It redefines actual sin to be a symptom of an underlying disease which the sinner was born infected with. Thus repentance is fundamentally redefined because the sinner will not view their sin as a crime that was 100% their fault. There will be blame put on the way they were born and thus true godly sorrow is negated. The merciful God provided a way of reconciliation, a divine substitute for our sins, Jesus Christ. Scriptures state that the wages of sin is death (eternal separation from God) but the gift of God (salvation) is eternal life through Jesus Christ. So once an individual reaches the age of accountability it is their responsibility to repent of their sins and seek God's throne of grace for forgiveness. The problem is that Original Sin, by twisting the nature of man, forces the redefining of repentance and faith. Sin is flagrant rebellion to God and needs to be recognised as such. If a sinner views their sinning as a sickness which they have through no fault of their own how can they be truly sorry? How can God hold a sinner responsible for something that their inner nature necessitated them to do?
Isaiah 48:8 means that God knew their fate before they were born. God knows our future actions and destiny before we come into this world.
I will quote again Article 6 from the Westminster Confession.
I. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtilty and temptations of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit.
[1] This their sin, God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory.
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II. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion, with God,
[3] and so became dead in sin,
[4] and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body.
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III. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed;[6] and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.[7]
IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good,[8] and wholly inclined to all evil,[9] do proceed all actual transgressions.[10]
V. This corruption of nature, during this life, does remain in those that are regenerated;[11] and although it be, through Christ, pardoned, and mortified; yet both itself, and all the motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.[12]
VI. Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto,
[13] does in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner,
[14] whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God,
[15] and curse of the law,
[16] and so made subject to death,
[17] with all miseries spiritual,
[18] temporal,
[19] and eternal.
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This teaching completely perverts the repentance message because the sinner becomes a victim instead of a criminal.
Look at what this doctrine has done to the churches. The churches are full of sin because people don't repent of their sin and forake it, they instead confess that they are sinners (cos they were born that way) and then they wait on God to clean them up.
The Bible teaches that a sinner is in rebellion to God and that the sinner must FORSAKE that rebellion and be broken before God.
Under Original Sin the Gospel message is twisted to a saved IN sins message. The infected sinner is just covered in his sickness and due to the flesh being infected with this sin disease the sin will never stop until they die and they get their glorified body, or so they are told.
If sin (unto death) is simply rebellion to God and is a crime then man has to come out of His rebellion BEFORE God will receive him. One cannot receive the teachings of God if they are still in rebellion to them and that is why James would write...
Jas 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Jas 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
You don't need advanced theological degrees to understand any of this, just a good heart sincerely seeking the truth.
If sin is a disease which necessitates actual sin then men are disabled and cannot lay aside all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness in order to receive Christ within.
See the difference between saved in sin and saved out of sin?
Original Sin is the bedrock for the development of the Penal Substitution view of the atonement which was formulated 400 years ago. Penal Substitution teaches that Jesus was a WRATH SUBSTITUTE for the sinner and took the sinners punishment in their stead. Thus all the sinners sins have already been punished which means they cannot be punished again. Thus the sinner can keep sinning and remain justified before God. I hope some who are reading this have the eyes to see what these damnable satanic teaching do to the Gospel.
Look at the church system today. It is full of sin. Professing Christian's who love the world and the things of the world yet think they are saved, that they are covered. The root is defiled by these dangerous gnostic teachings and thus the fruit is defiled.
Jesus said you will know them by their fruit and He was 100% correct.
Original Sin is Satan's masterpiece of deception. Through this one teaching he has been able to deceive untold millions of people into believing in a twisted Gospel message which is totally devoid of genuine repentance and faith which thus blocks any true reconciliation with God taking place.
I urge everyone to really look into these things, don't treat this casually. Really think about it.
Where does the Bible specifically teach that the sin of Adam resulted in man acquiring a natural tendency to sin?
Why didn't the Jews ever teach this?
Why didn't the early Church teach this?
