Quote Originally Posted by alanmolstad View Post
I disagree with this completely.

its like this...
When Adam was made, we cant say that he was made with a 'sin nature"...

Just as Adam was not made with a sin nature, so too I was not made with a sin nature.
But both Adam and myself are made of flesh.....and the flesh is weak and subject to doing things that are evil.

Now when Adam sinned, we cant say that he sinned because sin was already inside him when he was created, as that would make God the original cause of sin and it's true Maker.
But we can say that when the Law came into Adam's life, then and only then did sin "SPRING TO LIFE" in his heart.

Its the same way with all us who are the children of Adam too.
Sin "springs to life" inside our hearts and we die.

Adam and his children are not created with little "seeds" of sin inside us, rather what happens is that temptation enters our hearts and we respond in a wrong manner to the temptation and this leads us to sin....

So while all are tempted from time to time, not all temptation leads to sin.
a perfect way to understand this issue...