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Originally Posted by Trapped
And let’s say the pregnant woman is in the pit long enough that she has her child, a little boy. The baby boy is born into the pit. This is akin to our situation. We are the babies born into the pit.
Is it the baby’s fault that he is in the pit? Nope. He was born into it. But does the baby still need to be saved out of the pit? Yes, a thousand times, yes.
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This is one aspect. Not bad, as it shows we were "in" Adam when he made that fateful error. But as Romans 7:17-18 shows, something of that rebellious nature is actually in the "baby" too (that will prompt it to murder, steal, lie, etc.):
"It is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh."
I kinda like to replace "the pit" in this sort of analogy with a cesspool. Mankind is drowning in unimaginable filth and winds-up ingesting a lot of crap!