I understand that conventional Christian dogma is that humans are born in Sin (I belive this is true of most prodestant, and catholic churches, please correct me where I am mistaken).
This Sin is from Eve, and Adam choosing to eat of the tree of Knowlage of Good and Evil which God had instructed them not to eat.
All humanity now bears that sin from birth? This is one of the underlying reason many Christians are against abortion? because the unbabtised fetus would be doomed to Hell?
How can the belifef system incorporate "Free Will" for individuals, a God of Mercy and Justice, and Original Sin?
2007-03-01 04:42:19 · 23 answers · asked by oneirondreamer 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I cannot justify GOD--he is HOLY--HE developed a plan where man would choose to worship him. If you can accept death as a punishment--for we all die--a fetus is not unbaptized by abortion--it is killed--I am against killing a fetus. If God had left us in a state of unforgiven I would agree with you. But he didn't In most Religions you will find a redemption for that sin i.e. (christian faith-Jesus died for the unjust)--nothing on earth was sinless--Jesus being perfect could. If we(humans) accept that sacrifice of Jesus then we are adopted into God's family. This is done by FAITH. So, there is a cure for that sin nature. The question is: do you believe it?
2007-03-08 11:03:58 · answer #1 · answered by j.wisdom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've wrestled with this question for a long time. It seems unfair. So I would maintain that God's justice comes in at the point of providing a way out of the "curse".
Everyone has been infected with the virus, but it's fair that when presented with the cure, if one chooses not to accept it, they can suffer the consequences of it.
Regarding abortion, I have no idea whether any particular fetus is going to heaven or hell. I don't know that you can make an iron-clad case either way on the basis of scripture. I'm against abortion the same way I'm against slavery, or murder, or any other crime against humanity. It's a violation of human rights to kill, no matter how small or dependent, on the basis of choice. Choice is the least noble reason I've ever heard for killing. I can't fathom why intelligent, enlightened 21st century Western civilization can be so backwards in this area.
2007-03-01 04:55:33 · answer #2 · answered by sickblade 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is true that we are born sinners because of Adam's fall.
It is not true that most Christians are against abortion because unborn unbaptized babies go to Hell. God can and I believe does save the unborn. We are against abortion because it is murder.
God is a just God so He must punish sin, He showed mercy by becoming a man in Christ Jesus to pay the price for us.
Free will, as taught in most churches today is a myth.We are free to do as we want but not free to do what we should unless the Holy Spirit does His work in us.
2007-03-01 05:03:31 · answer #3 · answered by G3 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why would a kind and loving God impose a sin on the soul of an innocent baby or doom an unbaptised fetus or child to hell? What nonsense....original sin is a crock.
2007-03-09 01:47:27 · answer #4 · answered by holly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True Christians do not believe in original sin because sin cannot be inherited.
Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
What can you inherit from your parents is this:
Proverbs 19:14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers; but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
2007-03-01 04:52:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not all christains believe the fetus would go to hell. He is a just God considering how long he puts up with some of the things humans are capable of.
2007-03-08 14:15:14 · answer #6 · answered by Steven 2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To get a clear picture of Gods purpose you need to first clean away some of the dirt that satan has put in the Bible.............Doomed to hell...............
What does the Bible say the penalty for sin is?
Rom. 6:23: “The wages sin pays is death.”
After one’s death, is he still subject to further punishment for his sins?
Rom. 6:7: “He who has died has been acquitted from his sin.”
Is eternal torment of the wicked compatible with God’s personality?
Jer. 7:31: “They [apostate Judeans] have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart.” (If it never came into God’s heart, surely he does not have and use such a thing on a larger scale.)
Illustration: What would you think of a parent who held his child’s hand over a fire to punish the child for wrongdoing? “God is love.” (1 John 4:8) Would he do what no right-minded human parent would do? Certainly not!
2007-03-01 04:53:19 · answer #7 · answered by papa G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lets not mix too many issues in 1 question.
Free Will is up to us to decide where we go.
G-d has provided us all the warning and preventing us from going to hell or not. So don't blame G-d for what you do.
He has given you way out.
Abortion is another matter it isn't about a fetus going to hell or not it is about killing a human being at will which is murder and that violated the top 10 as in "Thou shall not murder"
2007-03-01 04:49:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The term unique sin would not selection for people who have faith in it unique sin potential that all of us being born of the flesh inherit the sin of Adam. This term comes from Romans 5: 12-14 12Therefore, in basic terms as sin entered the international via one guy, and dying via sin, and via this way dying got here to all adult men, because of the fact all sinned— 13for until now the regulation became given, sin became interior the international. yet sin isn't taken into consideration whilst there is not any regulation. 14Nevertheless, dying reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over people who did not sin by potential of breaking a command, as did Adam, who became a trend of the only to return. The Bible says all have sinned and fallen wanting the appreciate of God The doctrinal question of the implications of sin differences between Christians, the thought all of us sin would not substitute. Nor, does the thought all of us want Jesus. the assumption of babies going to hell because of the fact of unique sin is ludicrous. Whoever got here up with that stupid concept is an fool. maximum Christians will reference an age of duty. that's mentioned that this theory isn't Biblical. even however that's. whilst the Israelites could not enter the promise land because of the fact of their loss of have faith in God. people who have been nineteen and below weren't held responsible for their disbelief. i'm not asserting the age of duty is nineteen. in basic terms that God takes into consideration the shape of the ethical experience. ethical experience potential with awareness. a infant purely has specific tiers of awareness, and consequently won't be able to be judged interior the comparable way that a twenty 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous may well be. God is in basic terms... He does not sin a infant to hell. As a techniques a your connection with tribes bypass. This is likewise an argument it fairly is biblical. Romans one tells us that his invisible attributes are show up interior the flaws that are made. Missionaries have chanced on tribes who're worshiping the a million God who created the international even however they had not been informed--they might in basic terms tell from being on the earth.
2016-10-17 00:42:52 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have asked a very interesting question. babies don't go to hell. People object to abortion because its murder.
Romans 5: 12 says that in one man all have sinned. But since that is true, in one man shall all be made alive. Its that simple. God, in his mercy , will not judge anyone that accepts His Son.
2007-03-01 04:49:03 · answer #10 · answered by bbjones9 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋