[Trapped]

I don't know the details of it's origins, but I don't hold to it anymore.

I just spent a couple hours reading various articles on the topic, and yeah, many, many apparently seasoned Christian websites make a bold proclamation that "we sin because are born sinners", and reject the thought that "we are born sinless, at some point we sin, and at that point become a sinner".

But there are way too many problems with the "born sinner" doctrine, and very, very few problems of the "born uncondemned and at some point commit a sin" viewpoint.

"Adam sinned, therefore you are born guilty". Excuse me?

"Adam sinned, therefore you are born with an inherent sin nature by which you cannot help but sin, and God judges you for it." Excuse me?

"Adam sinned, and his nature changed into a sin nature, you know...even though the Bible records no such 'nature change'." Excuse me?

The way some talk about it they seem to think disobeying God caused a DNA-level change in Adam.

And yet Satan sinned and as a spiritual being did not have DNA to bear the effects.

A shocking number of articles waive the implications of the doctrine aside by saying, "this may not seem fair to you, but no matter, God provided a way out." But this is clearly a total cop out. God is supposed to be just and righteous. It becomes pretty important on this one to square His righteousness up with this doctrine.

It's like, if I was falsely charged with a crime and brought before a court and someone paid the fine for me, I wouldn't say, "oh no problem about the false criminal charge, someone paid it for me." I would still stand there and say, "No, no, no, hold on. I never did this in the first place. The court cannot falsely accuse me of something I didn't do." And yet well-known Christian sites present this very scenario as if it's ok.

The biggest problem, for me, with original sin, is that if we are all born sinners even at 2 days old, then the Bible is lying when it says Jesus was made like us in every way. If Jesus was born with a fundamentally different nature than we, where He has an inherently sinless nature and we have an inherently sinful nature, then in one of the most important ways, He was most certainly not made like us in every way.

It is only if we all are born with a regular human (not sinful) nature, the same type that Adam had, the same type that Eve had, the same type every human has, and the same type that Jesus had......that Jesus being tempted and yet not sinning carries any meaning at all.