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"How could sin have entered the world, if God is good?”(1) this question posed throughout the centuries has brought us to the term original sin. Original, from what I have read is a doctrine that we are all born into a sinful nature.That from the moment we are born we have a desire in us to sin and disobey. Clay Jones goes on to say, "The hardest aspect of this doctrine regards how it could be fair that all humans should suffer for the sin of Adam and Eve (2)." Along with being born sinners from Adam and Eve, Original sin says we are also at fault for them eating the fruit. Original sin has been twisted in to something that some people believes is genetic passed by reproduction, therefore making sex bad. "Augustine drew from his reading of …show more content…

Ephesians 1:2-3 shows us pretty clearly that we are sinners from the start, "And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath." This is not something that God created us to have, but is a result of disobedience. This is what we start out as, but God does not leave us there drowning in sin; he does not blame us for Adam and Eve's sin, he gives us a way out. Galatians 3:22 says, "But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe." Ephesians 3:12 says, "In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence (4)." Though we are born into a sinful nature we also have the choice to keep sinning as we grow, and it is this choice that makes the difference in the end. God gives us a way out, all we have to do is choose

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