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1 | Our Natural Aptitude | Ps 51:5 | DocTrinsograce | 174296 | ||
"We are all born in sin. We naturally love sin. We take to sin, as soon as we can act and think -- just as the bird takes to flying, and the fish takes to swimming. There never was a child who required schooling or education in order to learn deceitfulness, selfishness, passion, self-will, gluttony, pride, and foolishness. These things are not picked up from bad companions, or gradually learned by a long course of tedious instruction. They spring up from themselves! The seeds of them are evidently the natural product of the heart. The aptitude of all children to these evil things is an unanswerable proof of the corruption and fall of man." --J. C. Ryle (1816-1900) | ||||||
2 | Our Natural Aptitude | Ps 51:5 | AJJR | 174299 | ||
I'm not sure what Ryle, himself, meant by "born in sin." I certainly agree with his observations about the capacity and tendency of the human heart to do evil but I also observe that there is a flip-side which is also a natural product of the heart: love, of all varieties, including, for example, the love that a parent naturally has to jump into a raging stream at peril to his or her own life to attempt the rescue of a drowning child. Consideration should be given to balancing this Psalm (51) against Psalm 22:9,10, Psalm 71:5,6 and Psalm 139. Also, how do we believe the account of Job, a man described by the Lord God Himself to be "perfect" (KJV)/"blameless" (NIV/NASB) just before his ordeal began, squares with Psalm 51? Could it be that Job did not commit the heinous sin that David had committed with Bathsheba and Uriah (which might perhaps explain David's mood in writing Psalm 51--see the headnote to this Psalm)! | ||||||
3 | Our Natural Aptitude | Ps 51:5 | DocTrinsograce | 174300 | ||
Dear AJJR, J. C. Ryle was a Bishop in the Church of England. Consequently, he would have been speaking in a fashion consistent with Chapter 6 of the 1658 Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order. Double imputation enables God to declare one of His own elect, while retaining His righteousness and fully satisfying His justice. In Him, Doc |
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