Yes, Yes the Adam and Eve thing. But does that make any sense to you? Why is a baby born a sinner because of what someone else did?
2007-01-16 02:08:45 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You're right. Christians are accountable for Adam and Eve's sin (whatever that was!) and not accountable for their own (Jesus died for them). I'd say Christianity has a major problem with accountability!
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2007-01-16 02:13:42 · answer #1 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Sin is not merely a question of doing or not doing, it also has an aspect of being. A person does sinful actions becaue he is a sinner, it is part of his nature to do sin. There is an inner moral twistedness, a malfunction in the character.
Yes, a baby is born a sinner because of what someone else did. Because of what our ancestors Adam and Eve did with Satan. It is something we inherit, like a congenital birth defect.
But the remedy is also because of what someone else did. God sent Jesus to us to heal us of sin. If we will let him, he will do it.
2007-01-16 04:16:14 · answer #2 · answered by Beng T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately all humans are born with a sin nature caused by Adam and Eve. Genesis is a great place to start learning about this.
Coincidentally while we are all sinners a child is not responsible until they can truly understand right from wrong-this is called the age of accountability. once that threshold is passed one must seek forgiveness.
2007-01-16 02:22:21 · answer #3 · answered by ALEIII 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one is born a sinner. Everyone is born with sin (the inherited original sin). You can live a good, moral life, give to charities, help the homeless, adopt 1000 orphans, but you still carry the original sin with you. Christ died as a payment for mans' sins. If you accept the gift of salvation, you are absolved of the original sin and any sin you may have committed. Since man is not perfect even then, we Will still slip-up and still need to confess the sin and ask forgiveness. God will forgive and forget.
2007-01-16 04:08:31 · answer #4 · answered by Jenifer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The phrase that babies are born in sin has never made sense to me, because it's not true. Christians (members of the Church of Christ) have never said that babies are born in sin, Catholics and all others who consider themselves Christians say that. Babies are born in complete innocence, they have done nothing wrong. You are not considered a sinner until you have committed a sin (1 John 3:4), which babies cannot do.
Everybody is born with the tendency to sin, because we are human, but no one is born into sin, and no one is accountable for anyone else's sins. We are accountable for our own sins.
2007-01-16 02:47:01 · answer #5 · answered by kellygirlaj 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Adam ate the fruit, then sin entered the world, making it that every person who comes from a woman is a sinner. We are born into iniquity.
2007-01-16 02:25:38 · answer #6 · answered by Nish 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First off, I would disagree that we are born into sin. Adam and Eve sinned, and through their sin, death came to all of us.
SPIRITUAL DEATH However, children who die are not guilty of sin.all have a choice to sin or not to sin – it is up to us.
Little children are innocent because they do not know the difference between good and evil. Isa. 7:15-16
Jeremiah 19:4-5; Psalm 106:37-38 - In sacrificing babies to idols, they shed innocent blood. If babies inherit Adam's sin, they would not be innocent.
2007-01-16 02:21:06 · answer #7 · answered by mcmahon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, "christians" in general do not believe a baby is born with sin. If you have ever attended a "baby dedication" you would understand that christians who practice the Bible, dedicate their children to a life with and for God. Only in certain religions, (Catholic, Lutheran, etc.) where members of a church actually live by the church rules and not God's are there baptisms. Most practicing Christians are not baptized until they can accept the Holy Spirit and profess that Jesus Christ is their Lord and Savior (being saved). I strongly suggest that you research ALL religions and not lump ALL Christians together, we are not all alike, nor are ALL churches alike.
Good luck in finding your relationship with your Creator and may God bless you in your endeavor.
2007-01-16 02:50:36 · answer #8 · answered by NaturalMom 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After Adam and Eve sinned-they had a "fallen nature". Adam's seed was corrupted. So, every child born from that day forward is born from corrupt seed. The only nature humanity has is corrupt. One can be "born again" from above.
A new baby has done no wrong-its just born in a corrupted world of corrupted seed.
I have a friend whose father is blind. My friend inherited his fathers blindness, and so did one of his sons. My friends genes are corrupted. Its the same way with sin-we inherit it. It is out of our control,
2007-01-16 02:23:47 · answer #9 · answered by Desperado 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian and we all sin the Bible says you are safe from sin until you reach the age of recognition or accountablity that is when you are old enough to know the difference between right and wrong. Some denominations of the Christian faith believe differently. I attend a First Baptist Church and we believe babies are safe from that they are not accoutable at birth God would not hold someone elses sin against them.
2007-01-16 02:19:22 · answer #10 · answered by Mary B 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As a Christian, I do not say a baby is born a sinner.
2007-01-16 03:17:04 · answer #11 · answered by clwkcmo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋