It is hard for me to understand why so many people believe in Original Sin. Again let us look at what happen after the fall of Adam in Genesis. Let us look at Genesis Chapter 3 starting with verse 10; "So he said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself." And then God replies, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?" Obviously, with Adam we sense that there is guilt because he hid himself from God before this there was no sense of guilt in fact there was communion in the garden with himself and God. At verse 12, Adam states that it is the woman you gave me and I ate of the fruit of the tree again we see the example of not taking responsibility for his actions, which has plague man every since. Let us continue on as the woman blames the serpent who has deceived her, as we look at verse 16 God addresses Eve and then pronounces judgment upon her, "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you." And then we see that God pronounces judgment upon Adam, "Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return." In verse 22, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever--- therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way to the tree of life."
As we look at these judgments we see that God has not pronounce that Adam has no free will or that his children are going to be born in sin. We do know that Adam and Eve died spiritually when they disobey God by eating of the tree of good and evil, but they did not die at that moment physically because they had sinned. We see in Genesis that there are examples of men who had the freedom to obey or disobey God. In Genesis 4:6-7 we see the example of Cain as he murdered his brother Abel, but these verses gives evidence that man is free to do right or wrong "So the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it." There are those today that preach that you are born a sinner and you are not able to stop sinning and yet there are two more examples in the next few chapters that give illustration of the excuse that the preachers give. In Genesis chapter 5:21 "Enoch lived sixty five years and begot Methuselah, After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. And Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took him." Interesting that he was able to obey God to the point that God took him home because he was righteous, even thought the preachers today deny that you are able to obey God. Let us go a little further in Genesis chapter 6:7-9, "So the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. this is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God." There are other examples in scripture of men and women who were faithful but there is no excuse of original sin. These so called men of God are deceiving you and telling you are not able to do what is right. In 2 Peter 2:1-3 speaks of false teachers that would come from within the believers that they would secretly introduce heresies, and others will follow after them and the way will be maligned. This is what has happen since Augustine introduce his gnostic teachings that have destroy the true church of God.
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