Do people become sinners because they sin or do they sin because they are sinners??

Answer 1

We sin because we are sinners. We are born with a sinful nature.

Answer 2

A sin nature begets sin. By there fruits you shall know them.
Ps. 51:5. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Individual acts stemming from sin are wickedness and those stem from unrighteousness which are thoughts. Let the wicked man forsake his Ways and the unrighteousness man his Thoughts.

Failing to realize that there is only one problem, and not hundreds, tends to muddy the water and produce religious efforts that either ignore sin or treat symptoms.

Murder is wickedness, caused by sin.
Smoking is the perverted use of something God created, caused by sin.
Abortion is the perversion of a system which God created, caused by sin. Whether it is a crime or no, it will always be a wicked act before God.

Now it is common to call the act a sin as we would call an act a crime. It is so common that the law handed down to Moses is not understood and to soon compared to civil and criminal law. One may stem from the other; but God's law is based on unchanging spiritual principals and not upon politics and precedent.

The interesting thing about sin nature is its core; which is unbelief and rejection of God's word. From the point of unbelief everything falls into crime and chaos.

Answer 3

We sin because we are BORN sinners. We can be saved by grace through faith; but we still struggle with our sinful nature every day. Christianity is not one trip to the altar - it is a LIFESTYLE we develop by pursuing a relationship with God.

Answer 4

We are all sinners & we sin because of that. Some people commit worse sins than others, but we all sin.

Answer 5

people become sinner because we sinned.and everyone sins.But GOD hates sin.The penalty for sin is death in this life and life to come.But GOD paid the penalty through JESUS when he died for u.Now GOD wants to strike the sins of u and clear ur penalty and make u righteous free from the burden of sin and fear of sin.

"For GOD so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoso ever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life".Ask JESUS to come into your heart and forgive ur sins and cleanse ur past with his blood.

With a simple prayer like above u can be saved.

Answer 6

While we may be predisposed to sin, we become sinners because we sin, not the other way around.

Answer 7

There is a time when people do things because they don't know any better, then they get taught what is wrong and what is right. This should be controlled behavior, if a person does wrong just to do wrong, then that person needs to pay the penalty for the wrong-doing. Hope this gets you really thinking

Answer 8

Well if Eve ushered Sin onto the earth through becoming God like and finally having a knowledge of Good and Evil, then all humans inherit sin through her line.

Luckily I am a descendant of an ape like creature from millions of years ago, and not being a descendant of Adam or Eve am sinless.

Answer 9

The Bible says that people are born sinners...=} (But babies can't sin)

Answer 10

People are sinners because they choose to be sinners, and not live a life of Grace. Not because of any of the misrepresented logic you have postulated.