Subject: Things people THINK in the BIBLE but not |
Bible Note: Psalm 14:1-3 says there are wicked men who have "turned aside" and do not "seek after God." It says nothing of birth and sin. Jeremiah 17:9, while it describes the heart of a sinner, says nothing of birth and sin. Romans 3:9-18 perpetuates this same concept of "turning aside" and does not speak of birth, and I can't see anything AT ALL that Romans 5:10-12 says regarding being born with sin. I am not denying that all have chosen to sin and thus die, and I most certainly advocate Christ as our One and Only Savior and our Propitiation for our Sins, but there is not one scripture that plainly explains that the Lord has created babies doomed to hell due to a lack of acceptance of the confession of Christ because of their "original sin." In fact, the scriptures instruct us in a number of places that the child will not suffer for the iniquity of the father. We choose to sin. Man does have a sinful nature, but that is not to say that man is a transgressor from birth. Again, all sin is transgression, and to transgress the Law in any point is to transgress the whole Law, and no murderer shall inherit the kingdom of God. Small children are incapable of confessing Christ, so strickening them with sin is to challenge them with a temptation they cannot bear. The bible also tells us that any who put a stumbling block before a child would profit himself to hang a rock from himself and cast himself into the "abyss." You believe God creates children with sin. If this is the case, shall the Lord not hang the millstone from His own neck? |