Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
David did NOT say he was sinful at birth, the NIV horribly perverts the underlying Hebrew putting words into David's mouth he never said.
David said in sin did my mother conceive me.
Being conceived in sin is not the same as being born a sinner.
--the context shows leading up to verse 5 that David is NOT talking about any sin he inherited from Adam, but is seeking forgiveness of his own sin he committed with Bathsheba. Yet the NIV tries to change the verse from a sin David actively chose to commit with Bathsheba to him passively being born a sinner against his will making David a victim of sin rather than being responsible for sin he committed.
--David said he was shapen "in iniquity" and "in sin" did my mother conceive me. The bible clearly speaks on the fact the world is full of iniquity and sin and David was simply saying he was shapened and conceived in a sinful world. Everyone is born into a sinful environment of the world. Similar language is used in Acts 2:8. This verse does not mean they were born speaking a language but they were born into an environment where a particular language was spoken and they in time learned that language themselves. Likewise all are born into a sinful world and in time learn right from wrong and choose to sin.
--Psalms 139:14 "
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well."
David was not praising God because God made him a lost sinful, vile unforgiven reprobate.
--Psalms 22:9-10 "
But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother’s breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God since my mother bare me. " The NIV renders this passage essentially the same. So was David a lost, vile reprobate sinner at birth as the NIV claims in Psa 51:5 or was David trusting God at birth? Lost sinners are not trusting in God.
--John said
sin is transgression of the law. At conception, what law did David transgress making him a sinner? None, at conception as a fertilized egg he was not capable of transgressing.
--the NIV's forced wrong interpretation of Psa 51:5 contradicts a host of verses (as Eccl 7:29) that show infants are not passively born sinners against their will but are born innocent having done no good or bad Rom 9:11.