We are born corrupt and condemned, alienated from the life of God, with nothing to commend us to him with.
I suppose we will continue to disagree, no point in pursuing this conversation.
Fair enough but allow me to post some scripture that disagrees with the above statement:
Ecclesiastes 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Other translations:
(CEV) I did learn one thing: We were completely honest when God created us, but now we have twisted minds.
(ESV) See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.
(GW) I have found only this: God made people decent, but they looked for many ways to avoid being decent."
(MSG) Yet I did spot one ray of light in this murk: God made men and women true and upright; we're the ones who've made a mess of things.
upright
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03477 yashar {yaw-shawr'}
from 03474; TWOT - 930a; adj
AV - right 53, upright 42, righteous 9, straight 3, convenient 2,
Jasher 2, equity 1, just 1, meet 1, meetest 1, upright ones 1,
uprightly 1, uprightness 1, well 1; 119
1) straight, upright, correct, right
1a) straight, level
1b) right, pleasing, correct
1c) straightforward, just, upright, fitting, proper
1d) uprightness, righteous, upright
1e) that which is upright (subst)
God hath made man upright, meaning righteous and good, but man seeks out things that alter this beginning.
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Psalms 25:8 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
Psalms 92:15 To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Even God describes himself as 03477 yashar and creating man as 03477 yashar means we are not born in sin and not created imperfect and flawed.
Matthew 12:45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Even here we see that a wicked man progressed in his wickedness. His ending state was worse than his beginning. Mankind is created upright and righteous but we all progress from that state in our unrighteousness. Not all end up as bad as the above example but we all do become more unrighteous than when we were first created.