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Why do we sin?

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God gives us free will. The option to choose good or choose evil.. that is why we sin.

and God did not create us as sinners, really. He created us, it's through our own choice that we are sinner. Temptation gets the best of us and that's what makes us sinners.


*has a feeling this topic will eventually become a free will vs. predestination discussion*

 
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DreamTheater said:
We are made in God's image. God is all good and righteous. So why do we sin? And why would God create billions and billions of terrible despicable sinners?
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He doesn't create despicable sinners, we choose sin and become dispicable through our free will choice… because we are fallen people, wounded by the sin of Adam and Eve we will be inclined to sin, but not born evil or corrupt.

You express a Protestant POV, that God creates evil sinners. He doesn't create sinners or evil people, he creates man and he sees what he made as good because we are made in his image and likeness and because we are- we have a will like His, which is free and we choose to sin because we are weak and wounded from the fall.

The good news is, Jesus Christ comes to redeem, heal and to transform this weak, wounded, fallen mankind. We can with grace become what we were redeem by Him to be- beautiful, in His image.
 
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Steph said:
* Steph grabs her newspaper


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And another thing, why do we men have original sin, how is that our fault?? You just know the only reason Adam ever ate the apple was to get Eve to be quite because she nagged him into eating it by going on and on about how good it was.
 
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stray bullet said:
And another thing, why do we men have original sin, how is that our fault?? You just know the only reason Adam ever ate the apple was to get Eve to be quite because she nagged him into eating it by going on and on about how good it was.
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Like I said, he didn't know how to handle his woman.
 
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stray bullet said:
And another thing, why do we men have original sin, how is that our fault?? You just know the only reason Adam ever ate the apple was to get Eve to be quite because she nagged him into eating it by going on and on about how good it was.
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then most of 'em haven't changed much, have they?
 
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