Are people born in sin?

Question

Why or why not? Are babies born as a sinner too.

Answer 1

no. everyone is born pure because they came from god. humans sin as they get older and lose their purity. but when they first come to earth, they are still close to god and therefore are the purest humans until they get older and learn to sin

Answer 2

The answer to that question depends on which religious adherent you ask. Catholics, for instance, would say 'yes' because they believe in Original Sin and that all people, regardless of who they are or what faith they practice, are born with it and cannot be rid of it or receive salvation unless they are baptized. Other Christians might say that is radical and hard to abide by, cause obviously not everyone is Catholic or accepts that teaching of Original Sin. Baptists think that they are saved when they accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior, which is usually done during their early adolescents. Other Christian denominations do not accept the idea of Original Sin, rather someones actions in life depend on the purity of their soul and that should be what is reflect by them, not a preconceived notion that all people are damned to infernal fires unless they are baptized and "the gates of heaven shall not prevail".

The idea of Orginal Sin comes from the New Testament and the story of Adam and Eve; which is basically Eve took the forbiden fruit from the Tree of Wisdom and shared it with Adam, thereby destorying the garden of Eden and an earthly paradise. That is supposedly why people have to be on earth, so that they can choose for themselves whether or not to follow God through free will. I personally think that's another Biblical parable and a huge exaggeration and BS made by the bishops during the Dark Ages desperatley trying to keep the crubeling Church in tact, but there are many people, even in the modern world, who take that idea very seriously.

Answer 3

Sad, but yes. This planet is a birthing ground for new souls and we sit halfway between Heaven and Hell. Most of life is spiritual and unseen to our eyes, but we are given a few senses to get us along here, and a Heart to discern the unseen. Choose rightly and see Heaven. Why is there sin? To separate the chaff from the wheat. God doesn't want sin in Heaven. Why is evil so common and good seems hidden? Because the Earth is as heaven to evil, and can rise no farther, whereas the Earth is but a 'boot-camp' for those rising to much greater glory in Heaven. The Bible has it right.

Answer 4

We are all born into this world as sinners...
ROMANS 5:12
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Babies and young children who never live to reach the “age of accountability” are automatically saved by God’s grace and mercy. The Bible gives no direct support to the "age of accountability", as it varies from child to child.

A child has passed the age of accountability once he or she is capable of making a faith decision for or against Christ.

Answer 5

Yes all Adam and Eve children have it .
Rom 5:19
19For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Gal2:21
21I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Answer 6

Yes, all people inherited sin from Adam and Eve, specifically Adam. Romans 5:12 speaks to this, “Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned.” Romans 5:19a declares further, “For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners…” Adam and Eve were made in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-27). As a result, all human beings are also in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 9:6). However, we are also in the image and likeness of Adam (Genesis 5:3). When Adam fell into sin, that resulted in every one of his descendants also being “infected” with sin (Psalm 51:5).

The fact that we are born sinners results in the fact that we all sin. Notice the progression in Romans 5:12: Sin entered the world through Adam, death follows sin, death comes to all people, all people sin because they inherit sin from Adam. Thankfully, Jesus Christ is the Savior from sin! “O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 7:24-25a).

Recommended Resource: Basic Theology by Charles Ryrie.

Answer 7

How did the sin of Adam become the sin of all his descendants? The whole human race is in Adam "as one body of one man". By this "unity of the human race" all men are implicated in Adam's sin, as all are implicated in Christ's justice. Still, the transmission of original sin is a mystery that we cannot fully understand. But we do know by Revelation that Adam had received original holiness and justice not for himself alone, but for all human nature. By yielding to the tempter, Adam and Eve committed a personal sin, but this sin affected the human nature that they would then transmit in a fallen state. It is a sin which will be transmitted by propagation to all mankind, that is, by the transmission of a human nature deprived of original holiness and justice. And that is why original sin is called "sin" only in an analogical sense: it is a sin "contracted" and not "committed" - a state and not an act.

Although it is proper to each individual, original sin does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam's descendants. It is a deprivation of original holiness and justice, but human nature has not been totally corrupted: it is wounded in the natural powers proper to it, subject to ignorance, suffering and the dominion of death, and inclined to sin - an inclination to evil that is called concupiscence". Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ's grace, erases original sin and turns a man back towards God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist in man and summon him to spiritual battle.

Answer 8

No. Look at any 2 year old. Any religion that says she is born into sin is a liar. Pure and simple.

Answer 9

Supposedly it is inherited from Adam and Eve's sin of eating the forbidden fruit and is passed on at birth and baptism washes it away.

Answer 10

A fundie once told me that the original sin someone can commit is for a newborn infant out of the womb to cry. (that gave me a knot in my stomach)