SINFUL NATURE 3: PROBLEMS
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. What is the ‘Sinful Nature’?
a) Why do we sin? What is it that oftentimes urges us to do what we know is wrong? Did humanity inherit a ‘sinful nature’ when Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden? Did God curse humankind by giving them a tendency to sin; a tendency that has been the cause of hurt and heartache for untold multitudes to this day?
2. Problems with the ‘sinful nature as a ‘thing’ we inherited from Adam’ view
a) There are several theological problems with the view that we inherit a sinful nature, and guilt, from Adam.
b) Some of these problems are:
i) How the so-called ‘sin nature’ is transmitted from parents to children,
ii) How we can be held guilty for the sin of Adam; a sin in which we did not participate, and
iii) How did Jesus not inherit the guilt that this ‘sin nature’ supposedly carries, even though He was born of a woman.
The End ...
1. What is the ‘Sinful Nature’? a) Why do we sin? What is it that oftentimes urges us to do what we know is wrong? Did humanity inherit a ‘sinful nature’ when Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden? Did God curse humankind by giving them a tendency to sin; a tendency that has been the cause of hurt and heartache for untold multitudes to this day?
2. Problems with the ‘sinful nature as a ‘thing’ we inherited from Adam’ view
a) There are several theological problems with the view that we inherit a sinful nature, and guilt, from Adam.
b) Some of these problems are:
i) How the so-called ‘sin nature’ is transmitted from parents to children,
ii) How we can be held guilty for the sin of Adam; a sin in which we did not participate, and
iii) How did Jesus not inherit the guilt that this ‘sin nature’ supposedly carries, even though He was born of a woman.
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