How does being born into sin, and free will coexist?

Question

What if I used my free will to live a sin less life, but it's impossible if I'm born into sin.

Also not free will:
-My gender
-My race
-My parents
-My birthplace
-My sexuality
-My looks (though I'm not complaining)
etc.

Answer 1

you were born free from any sin, my friend, my little boy. what it means on the free will is your way where you would like to go, like go with Satan or go with God. You can go where you want to go if you have the financial status, you have your own rights to do, select of your own right to religion and so forth and so on. do you understand clearly or do you still need some clarification?

Answer 2

Very good, we are born into sin, and it seems like you're the only one that recognizes that among the people that have responded so far. But you don't have the free will to live a sinless life, if you are born into it as a result of Adam's transgression. To think that you have the ability to merit heaven on your own puts you in Job's place, trying to tell the Almighty that you're not guilty.

Free will and sin quite naturally coexist if man is guilty before the Lord, and the Bible supports this concept. Make any decision you want, the end result is the same without God's intervention.

Answer 3

Free will means the ability to make your own choices. Gender, race, etc. does not apply. Being born into sin is true. You inherit sin, thus each generation is tainted more than the one before. You still have the choice to ask for forgiveness. Use it.

Answer 4

You are assuming that if man is born into a sinful world than
everything man does is sinful. I guess you are also saying that if man is born into an evil world than good cannot exist. I would say man has a very strong urge to sin, but because we are made in the image of God (the good part of us), we have a choice(free will) not to sin.

Answer 5

We are free to play the cards we are dealt with (as you have stated here). Some of us read the manual to live by - the bible given to us by the Card dealer God Almighty (creator) and are playing with a full deck and some are not = our choice. The full deckers are the christians who read the Word of God, accept the gift of salvation and make The Lord the Master of our lives. The half deckers choose not to play all their cards by refusing to live their life to the full potential that the card dealer (God) gave them. They only take care of 1/2 their bodies, the physical and are leaving their spiritual part to chance for the devil to destroy. We christians who are born into sin like everyone else use our free will to follow the one who led a sinless life - Jesus. We cannot lead a sinless life, therefore could never enter sinless heaven, but thru God's Grace only are made pure in His sight and are forgiven so that we are a new creation with clean slates in order to enter heaven in eternity.

Answer 6

God created us with free will because he loves us. I

Imagine this.....
You are standing at the altar with someone you don't really know but are about to marry them. Why? Because you have no choice in the matter. You want nothing more then to run for the nearest exit but you are incapable of decision. Why? Because the person who wants to marry you claims they love you.

Letme ask you this....
If someone forced you to marry them would you believed they loved you? No of course not. Love is a choice.

Now if you were to read the first few chapters of genesis (in the bible) you read about Adam and Eve.
They were the first man and woman. They had deep and intamate relationships with God. Now in this garden stood a tree. The tree of knowledge of good and evil. Now God had told them not to eat anything from this tree for they would surely die from it.


Now I know what your thinking. Why did God even have that tree there? Did he want us to screw up? Did he want us to fail? NO! The reason he placed it there is so Adam and Eve had a choice. They in the end chose and ate from that tree.
That day....sin entered the heart of man and woman.

So as result of choice we are sinful by nature. God did not wish this for us but respects our choice.

Answer 7

Your free to play the cards you are dealt, the stage is set, that doesn't negate free-will. In Genesis, Joseph was sold into slavery and he choose to forgive his brothers and look to God his Savior. The one was pre-ordained the other was a choice. If you can't follow my logic than its unlikely you would support testing and grading school children on what they have learned because the concept is the same. For they have free will and could study for the test to pass or not study and fail or even study and learn all the answers and than just for the hell of it blow the test on purpose. That's free will and it has nothing to do with what I have writ en on the test.

Answer 8

That's true, but you can still make some choices, like to accept Christ or not. If there is a God, and He is truly just, He would not make automated robots and then punish them. Therefore, if this is the case there must be some part of us beyond the physical cause and effect world.

What's more perplexing to me is how some atheists think that they have free choice if everything is physical matter (including brain neurons). Then our thoughts and actions are determined by laws of physics and chemistry.

Answer 9

I don't know if you're joking or something, but your premises are ridiculous. You're not born into sin or free will. You're simply born - and deal with it with like the trillions of other life forms that have been born over the last 3 billion years or so.

Answer 10

Sin, as far as the world we live in. Is just the natural condition of this world. The selfish
fleshly body with it's lusts. Never being satisfied.
Sin isn't making mistakes. We all make mistakes.
Sin is not giving a damn, and indulging in
reckless lifestyles.