Total Depravity

Why do children have selfish natures?
I agree they are innocent,

We are told that we are unable to change our hearts. And our hearts are carnal.

Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Jer 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

We are not left in this evil condition.

We have a saviour. To save us from sin.

FROM SIN not in sin.

We are born with a sinful nature but sin is a choice.

We can have a sinful nature (which we all do) but not choose to sin. By grace, through faith Jesus can free us from the bondage of sin.

All good comes from God.
We are not able to be good or act good without God.
Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

why does it say sin "revived" instead of 'was born' or 'began' ?

Romans 7 says that when we are born, sin is dead and we are alive. Remind us what you define "dead" as?

and Romans 7 says that it was only after we sinned that we died and sin came alive in us. If sin came alive in us ADTER we heard a moral law, in us, and was dead before that, how could sin be affecting us in any way. before we learned and understood a moral law.

Probably because sin comes to life whenever a person reached the age of accountabiity and devils use the child's culture's laws to encourage and deceive the child into sin nd death. In every case, sin came ,alive again.

The reality:
I can't be perfect, I am not perfect, in fact I have still sinned, after belief to God in risen Son for me too.
I cannot claim to not have gotten angry, mad, lust or anything else. The lust of this world
Mark 4:19
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
Titus 2:12
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
(Yet we the people do not live righteously) at least me
2 Peter 1:4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
(Has anyone, escaped sin all sin completely, anyone of us here alive in flesh and blood today)

1. 1 John 2:16
   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.
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2. 1 John 2:17
   And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

No chance for me under Law to do to get in, is there since under Law, I have to be perfect to get it? I am not perfect so then how?
Matthew 19:26
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Only by belief to Son unto Father are we allowed in by Father for us in us through us, at least me
Thanks for the prompted post Burn1986
Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

So, anyone go ahead and see for you in you, and see it is impossible to obey law perfectly, then ask God Father for the exchanged life, your life for his life to live through you. Not you anymore trying to imitate the Son in his history walk, nor in his risen life imitating. Now in his risen Life reality, where you the first born person is dead and alive to God, In God's Spirit and Truth only for you, you, me and all others available, just go to God personally from within you and believe see and be new in wonderment too

No matter
Unless born again you not in. Yet babies in not knowing, aware of truth, are in. Because God is merciful, revealed in Son to us the people, yet not all believe this and are mixed up, just as I am, seeing to take any thought in me to my Father of the risen Son Jesus, to hear and know truth over error, to live in God's Spirit humbly, not my own. Being dead to flesh, alive to God thanks to Son I stand in belief to this truth
Psalm 100:4, 103:12 Ezekiel 36:26

Where in scripture is this "age of accountability?"

Exactly, babies go straight to eternal damnation.

In Adam we forfeited all right to all earthly as well as heavenly mercies: God might have taken thee from the womb, when thou wast a sinner but of a span long, and immediately have sent thee to thine own place; thou hadst no right to a drop of water more than what the bounty of God gave thee: And whereas he might have thrust thee out of the world as soon as thou camest into it, and so all those days of mercy thou hast had on earth might have been spent in howling and unspeakable misery in hell
John Flavel

I haver not found that, I am interested in that too. I think society under psychology, has called this age of accountability, age 12, mans study of the development of peoples minds on an average
I think, when one knows, one knows and will have no excuse, unless one has not come to know as those born with down syndrome

King James Bible
is. 7:16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

Where is the age here of accountability? /no age frame mentioned and this is about the Messiah Jesus. Yashua
It is about belief to God, Yaweh. About one will not be established if one does not believe God, being busy in their own thought(s) of worrying

Nice try, but no.

I just heard a teaching on this distinction on Thursday! From a general search ===

• Iniquity refers to the inherent sinful nature of mankind that leads to wickedness.
• Sin refers to acts of disobedience against God and His laws.
• Transgression refers to the willful crossing of boundaries established by God.
• Iniquity is the inward motivation that leads to sinful actions.
• Sin is the outward behavior that violates God’s laws.

love this section of Scripture ... I love that God tells us we can know His love which surpasses knowledge (how does He do that???) ... reminds me of the peace He so lovingly provides to us.
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could you please be more specific?

When David's first baby with Bathsheba died David said this:
2 Samuel 12:23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.'

Is King David in Heaven?
He said he was going to go to where his baby is at [I shall go to him, but he will not return to me]

Clearly, there is an age of accountability because David is planning on seeing his baby in Heaven when he gets there.