SINFUL NATURE 5: ARE WE GUILTY OF SOMEONE ELSE'S SIN?
(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. Are We Guilty of Someone Else’s Sin?
a) Another issue raised by this view of the ‘sinful nature’ is that it makes everyone guilty of Adam’s sin. However, the Bible is very clear that each of us is guilty of our own sin, not the sin of someone else. “Yet you say, ‘Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live. The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself” (Ezekiel 18:19-20).
b) Even Romans 5:12, a biblical commentary on the Fall, says that sin and death entered the world through one man [Adam], but we each experience this sin and death because we ourselves sin. Each of us is guilty and deserves punishment for our own sin, not the sin of Adam. Adam and Eve opened the doorway that allowed sin into our world.
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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. Are We Guilty of Someone Else’s Sin?
a) Another issue raised by this view of the ‘sinful nature’ is that it makes everyone guilty of Adam’s sin. However, the Bible is very clear that each of us is guilty of our own sin, not the sin of someone else. “Yet you say, ‘Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live. The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself” (Ezekiel 18:19-20).
b) Even Romans 5:12, a biblical commentary on the Fall, says that sin and death entered the world through one man [Adam], but we each experience this sin and death because we ourselves sin. Each of us is guilty and deserves punishment for our own sin, not the sin of Adam. Adam and Eve opened the doorway that allowed sin into our world.
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