Why are we sinful?

Question

Christians tell me that i carry the sins of adam and eve and so i must believe in jesus and follow their religion to get rid of the sin. but i find this illogical. Lets say this guy's father is a terrorist. he has sinned and so will be charged in court. But from a christian's point of view, the son of the father should also be hanged becuz he shares the same blood? An infant, when borned is totally innocent, knows nothing and have not sinned at all.Hence, i believe it is indeed sinful of these christians to call that infact sinful just becuz it has a super mega diluted blood of adam and eve. This question is asked given bible is truth and adam and eve really did exist. Thx. Nesh

Answer 1

God is Just. He does not punish someone for a crime of another. You are not in sin for what was committe by Adam and Eve.

Answer 2

The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.

If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't perfect.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.

First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.

How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work?

It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.

One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.

Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.

If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.

If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.

How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.

Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.

If this is the case and we are perfect creations of a perfect God then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.

How likely is that????

Think about it.

The idea of sin is simple nonsense; a lie made up about God by religion.

Love and blessings
don

Source --- Course in miracles

Answer 3

I don't think about that when I think of my sins. When I think of my sins I think of what have I done lately that is sinful? Have I cheated someone, have I lied, stolen, etc. I try to do a daily inventory of myself to make sure I am not being sinful. If I am, which it happens, then I make appologies to the people I have mistreated or I make up what I have done. I don't think on a grander scale about Adam and Eve, I just think about what my part is and how can I make things better. We are all sinful at times, I don't know anyone who is absolutely perfect. I deal with things as they come and work on them and move past.

Answer 4

NO first sin is only carried through men which is why god showed up only after adam sinnned, but women can and still do sin. You are born into sin, not born a sinner. Also according to the the wages of sin is death so we all deserve to die, being born with a tendency toward sin but god shows us mercy and grace. If u dont believe we are born with sinful nature watch a small child do somthing wrong and lie just as easily as any older person. Who teaches children to lie???

Answer 5

It is illogical - original sin is not a Christian doctrine, and was unheard of until well into the 4th century. It is not taught in Scripture, and is actually refuted by Scripture many times over. We sin because of the fear of death/nonbeing.

I recommend that you get your doctrine from primary sources, rather than from the dominant form of Christianity in your neck of the woods. The second largest Christian denomination rejects the entire concept of original sin.

Answer 6

Fallen nature, not inherited sin. Inheriting sins of the father "under the law" of OT before covenant of NT freed us from the bondage of the law. Tree of knowledge of good and evil - bad we know is bad, but people don't consider that the good was bad too. Enticement was serpent said would make them as gods, with power to know good and evil, know as much as God Himself. Pride cometh before a fall.
Father God made them perfect. They turned away. He sent the prophets to turn them back. The chasm between man and God widened. After Malachi, the final prophet of OT, there was 400 years of silence. Separation from God.

Next prophet was "a voice crying in the wilderness..Repent, prepare the way of the Lord. (John the Baptist): Repentance from sin. Turn back.

Jesus came to restore fallen humanity back in relationship with the Father. To bridge the gap between God & man.

The cross...
was where fallen humanity, this sin-sick world was reconciled back to God the Father by the shed blood of the Lamb (Perfect sacrifice; spotless, sinless) which covers a multitude of sin. The sin debt was paid in full.

There is the sin nature, inherent in each of us, due to the Fall in the Garden (not a myth, but site of ancient Babylon in modern-day SW Iraq). Our individual sins, due to our wrong choices need to be repented of (turn away from and do no more). If we continue along our sinful path, will eventually be given over to reprobate mind (damnation). It is not God's will though that ANY should be lost. But we have to choose.

Answer 7

Judaism believes nobody is responsible for a persons sins but the person who sinned. Also, nobody can atone or apologize for the person who sinned besides that person.

I think Chrstians believe these things because it makes the JC crucifixion died-for-my-sins-so-I-must-worship-him deal true. Nothing wrong with that, it's just not what I believe. It doesn't seem logical to me, either.

Answer 8

Thank Augustine of Hippo for that. He's the one who elaborated on a notion Saul of Tarsus touched upon.

It's absurd to think that a newborn child could be guilty of anything because of a MYTH. It's demeaning, thinking of the human race as being inherently dirty because of a MYTH. It's also liberating not to have to believe in that garbage.

Answer 9

It is the condition of man.

Adam's wife and Adam simply gravitated toward sin because they had the choice and they made the wrong choice. However, unlike our sins, they also took of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That is, they took the God prerogative to assume for themselves what was good and what was evil. And we, as humans, have been making the same mistake ever since (thinking we know what is good and what is evil without referring to a guide, such as the Bible).

Answer 10

you kinda lost me. our blood is deseased with the sins of adam and eve and our ancestors in general. the great thing is that God forgives us. we are human just like the ones before us. Not only do we carry their sins, but ours as well. as long as we pray to him and ask for forgiveness, He will help.