by John Raymond Nolan

Created on: September 21, 2010   Last Updated: September 23, 2010

Are people born evil?

As with most topics of this kind we suggest those who believe the Bible is the Word of God, and are unwilling to add to it or take from it will be considered unkindly by those who regard it as a nice Book, but not really one that means what it says.

According to Scripture we are born in a rather desperate condition; “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me.” Ps.51:5. This clearly explains that all born of woman are inheritors of the sin of Adam, just as we are inheritors of our father’s and grandfather's genetic characteristics and frailties. Surely that does not seem fair or reasonable, but, when Adam chose to partake of the fruit, (the consequences for actions), in the Garden, he established a genetic malfunction, a precedent which has been inherited by every person born since.

That is a tragic state of affairs, one denied by those who chose to contradict God’s Word, to rationalize it, manipulate it, that they can avoid the harsh confrontation that yes, we are all born in sin, shapen in iniquity and come into the world speaking lies. Only Christians are willing to recognize our horrific condemnation, from day one, and our need for One to deliver us from this nasty situation.

This is further evidenced by Biblical instructions that Christians, His children, must be born again, as the first birth, in the flesh, was faulty, and birthed us into an environment to which we are alien.

“Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of heaven.” Jn.3:3;

“Ye must be born again.”Jn.3:7;

“being born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, of the Word of God which liveth and abideth forever.”1Pet.1:23

“Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.” Job14:1.

As a believer one can rejoice in Job’s later statement; “If a man die shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change cometh.” 14:14

We determine from these few Scriptures, and there are heaps more to support the topic, that being re-born, is essential if we are to know God, which, logically, reveals that our first birth was faulty, erroneous, and birthed us into a condition from which it is essential to be freed and denies us access to our Creator.

It is difficult for a father of mother of a brand spanking new baby to look upon it as an item which is

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