We've
all inherited our sin nature from Adam.
Not exact matches
I know there are going to be a bunch of people out there that scream that God can do anything and could create a sinless Child, but you can not ignore the HUMAN
nature of Jesus, so unless God created something other than human, and then placed it in Mary's womb, he
inherited his human
nature from his mother and thus
inherited the Original
Sin.
A certain man, called Adam, degenerated voluntarily by abandoning the source of life and we are his descendants, that means we have
inherited his degenerated
nature, which does works of death, called
sins.
Whether this impulse is a trace of some particularly vicious strain humans
inherited from simian ancestors or whether it is the worst blight of original
sin, we seem to be stuck with it as a part of human
nature.
Niebuhr's antipathy toward any form of
inherited sin reflected his fear that it would mitigate responsibility; hence he writes: «the theory of an
inherited second
nature is as clearly destructive of the idea of responsibility for
sin as rationalistic and dualistic theories which attribute human evil to the inertia of
nature» (NDM 262).
Because Adam
sinned all his offspring
inherited a sinful
nature therefore, all are born with the propitiation to
sin.
We are not obliged to hold that Adam and Eve are the personal names of identifiable individuals known to history, but we must hold that the first human couple
sinned and fell from grace, thereby damaging the integrity and the destiny of human
nature itself, a wound which we all
inherit.
The doctrine of Original
Sin is a recognition that the damage wreaked upon human
nature which we all
inherit involves a weakening and wounding of our whole
nature, body and soul.