Psalm 51:5

Psalm 51:5

Sinful at birth

Many of us have a high view of our parents and, as children, it was hard to imagine that they were sinful. Hopefully this does not come as too much of a shock, not only were they sinful but they were responsible for our being born in sin too! I’ve often pondered the truth that I never taught my children to lie or to steal or to be disobedient, sadly it was inborn. The inclinations to do wrong are in all of us simply because we are descendants of a long genealogy that goes all the way back to Adam and Eve. The Lord God pronounced a damning indictment against us all after the flood, in the days of Noah, “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.” Genesis 8:21. 

This denunciation of the entire human race from birth, was clearly in the minds of the religious leaders when they angrily condemned Jesus after He had healed a blind man, “You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” John 9:34.

The problem of inherited sin is one that many people do not want to face. Because we tend to judge ourselves, and others, by actions and words we rarely bother to consider the true nature given to us all. We are sinful souls, “Sinful at birth, sinful from the time we were conceived.” The moment sin is passed on is the same moment that our parents pass on any of their traits and characteristics – at conception. We could say that sin is in our genes and no one has ever defied that human weakness, except Christ who was conceived of the Holy Spirit. Remember this, it is not your sins that make you a sinner, it is because you were born a sinner that you commit sins. 

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