How can babies be born "sinners?"?

Question

Do babies have homosexual relations or kill people while in utero? Obviously not, so how can they be born with sin? It's not as though there's sin carried over from past lives, since Christianity does not believe in reincarnation.

Christianity does not make sense at all. I'm glad to be Agnostic.

Answer 1

Before concluding that Christianity doesn't make sense, would you mind at least waiting for an answer to your question first?

All of us are born with the stain of original sin.

This doesn't mean that we are born having committed actual sins, of course, but it does mean that, due to the original sin of Adam and Eve, we are all born with a tendency to sin.

Jesus and Mary are the only two exceptions to this rule.

Baptism wipes away the stain of original sin. This is true whether one is baptized as a baby, a young child, or an adult.

While we're on the subject: babies who die before baptism do not necessarily go to hell.

The Catholic Church does not have a definitive teaching on what happens to the souls of such babies. The Church does have funeral rites which commit the souls of such babies to the mercy of God.

Personally, I believe that the souls of such babies are given a choice, after death, to either be with God or to be separated from Him. And what baby would possibly choose to not be with God?
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Answer 2

We aren't born sinners or sinning but we have sin living in our members, handed down from our fathers, that will begin to be acted out through the sinful nature of all human beings when we grow and can conceptualize. Babies are not under the law because with the law comes the knowledge of sin, and they have no understanding of sin for the time being. If they die then they go to heaven because they haven't committed any sin. Sin is a choice and so is faith.

Answer 3

I think the idea is that all humans jsut have this sin of evisting. Something like that being born is a sin, since in theory your parents shouldn't have een had the urges to have sex and then have you. It's based on the original sin of Adam and Eve and how they were just ignorant idiots in the Garden of Eden then suddenly had nrmal human urges and feelings. Urges such as having sex. This may be legitimately terrible and wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's along those lines.

Answer 4

Individual sinful acts (such as lying or stealing or killing or hatred or lusting) are merely symptoms of the underlying disease of Sin.

In your heart you can have an inclination to sin. This is what babies are all born with - we all are born with an inclination to go our own way, to lust, and lie and hate. Even before a baby has committed a sinful act, the sinful nature of their heart is there.

The answer for sinful acts is not to stop doing them - we simply do not have the power to stop sinning all the time. Just try to go a full day without lying or hating or lusting or dishonoring your parents and you will see what I mean.

There is only one cure for the underlying disease of Sin and that is the shed blood of Jesus Christ - through a relationship with him we can truly know God and God will cleanse our hearts and change us so that we no longer are inclined to Sin.

Does that make sense?

Answer 5

Ah ha! Finally a question from you that I deem worthy of an answer.

Babies are not born with original sin any longer, that was in the Old Testament days. Babies are born under "original grace" now, if they die before they come to the age of accountability they will go straight to Heaven.

Read the book "The Faith Once and For All" it will answer this question and others you may have, though I doubt you will do it since you do not seek the truth, you seek your own self-satisfaction.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Babies have no personal sin. If you are truly interested in the Church's teaching on original sin, read paragraphs 396-409 in the Catechism.

Answer 8

Babies are basically selfish and self-centered and as we grow and mature we learn to take other peoples circumstance and feelings into account or at least fake it.
I'm a Christian and do not believe all homosexuals will go to hell. The ones who molest children will be there unless they change though.

Answer 9

There is a difference between being smart and being a smartarse and apparently you remain as yet unaware of that such difference. Sin isn't carried on from past lives, it's carried on from Adam.

Answer 10

I have worried about this but I think it is we are all born selfish I do not think baby's will be held guilty by God but it is a natural desire we have to learn to control. I am not catholic and do not believe babtising babys will help in any way babtism is some thing we must chose for ourselves.