We are in conflict here so I will address it, while the rest is words: You said: "This is false. Adam chose sin but was not fated to do so. Where in the history of Christian doctrine did someone support this inference?"
I really do not care about “the history of Christian doctrine” except to possible see what others have said and never to find the answer.
Knowing: Adam and Eve did sin, God, Adam and Eve, human nature and man’s objective, tells us: they were going to sin.
Not ever sinning is not a choice mature only human adult can make, but they can of their own free will chose not to do a particular sin at a particular time, so that makes them accountable for all their sins.
Adam and Eve’s time in the Garden and sinning, allowed them and the rest of us to learn many things including the fact that the Garden scenario is a lousy (impossible) place for humans to fulfill their earthly objective.
“Not ever sinning” is not man’s objective and sinning seem to be needed for humans to fulfill their earthly objective.
SAD! SAD! SAD!
The story of Adam is a story of the greatest expression of Human love known to Men.
Adam was instructed by God, while walking together in the garden, "Do not eat of the tree in the middle of the garden; if you do, you will die."
At some point, God made of Adam's Rib, a WOMAN, and God brought her to Adam and gave her to him as wife.
At that point Adam ceased to living alone and knowing only the companionship of Animals and Flora.
Adam did not know of Eve's jeopardy when Satan confronted her and lied to her, deceiving her, when she went to the center of the garden, saw that the fruit of the tree was "good for food, and that it
was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make
one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat."[Gen 3:5]
When Adam realized the depth of Eve's error, he had two alternatives, (sometimes thought of as choices, though I believe Adam saw only one) The first was to separate himself from this woman whom God had brought to him and introduced her as a "MATE." Adam flashed back in memory to the days of loneliness and solitude broken only by the visits of God walking in the garden.
Some would declare (with a straight face) that walking with God should be enough for ANY man. But even God, who had made Adam, "saw that it was NOT GOOD for Adam to be alone."
So Adam did what MEN were made for, he protected his mate, and joined her in her rebellion against God. And in banishment from the garden of Eden. And in suffering the effects of God's cursing of the Earth, bringing forth thorns and thistles, and Adam, for the first time in his life, earning his food by the sweat of his brow.
Can you imagine Adam, living more than a thousand years, when meeting other members of his family who might occasionally stop and enquire of him "Grampa, what happened in the garden." I have no trouble tearing up with Adam as he simply hangs his head and walks off into the forest to find solace in the arms of his Mate, and his memories of walking with his God in the garden in the dawn of time.
Did Adam have a "Sin nature?" If he did, it was a good thing, for upon finishing the activity of creating, God had looked upon his creation, and declared all things to be "Very Good."
Then there are several bible references that deny the entire doctrine of original sin and hereditary depravity, so popular among bent and twisted harbingers of docrine over scripture;
Such as "For when the
Gentiles, which have not the law, do
by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:" Romans 2:14 Where is the "Sin Nature" here?
And Noah, Daniel and Job, who "saved only their selves by their righteousness"
as described in Ezekiel 14, thusly -
"The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver
but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:16
Though these three men
were in it,
as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.17 Or
if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:18 Though these three men
were in it,
as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.19 Or
if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job,
were in it,
as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall
but deliver their own souls by their righteousness."[Ezek 14:12-20]
There is no "Sin Nature" inherent in MAN; rather man makes choices every day of his life, some ood, some bad, some very good, some very bad. But it is "CHOICES" made of "FREE WILL" - NOT "SIN NATURE" that curses us all the days of our lives.
If Man had a sin nature, how is it possible God would direct His prophet to say to Israel - " And if it seem evil unto you to
serve the LORD,
choose you this day
whom ye will
serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that
were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell:..." [Joshua 24:15] They chose that day to serve Jehovah God. How, if they could not do anything to help their situation because of a sin nature?
And for those who insist ONLY Jesus could save Noah, Daniel and Job, and All have sinned and fallen short, and "there is none righteous no not one" - all of which is scriptural- I hasten to point out, "There is none righteous" was a single statement made at a specific point in a time when there were no righteous men. And "All have sinned" is mitigated by "Blessed is the man to whom the lord will not impute sin," which is a reference to "sins not unto death" as described by John in 1 John 5:16 "If any man see his brother sin a sin
which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin
not unto death. There is a sin
unto death: I do
not say that he shall pray for it. 17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin
not unto death."
A "Sin not unto death" is a category of sin covered by the sacrifice of Jesus upon the cross, and it is the category of sin that is not imputed to those who are blessed BECAUSE the Lord will not impute sin to them.
Jesus saved all men who are saved. But Noah, Daniel and Job, had only "Sins not unto death, which were not imputed to them, but so also did Jesus Christ - for it is said of Him, that what the Levitical priests did
DAILY Christ did
once when he sacrificed Himself. (Heb 7:27)
