Sin is only bad fruit just as works of faith are good fruit.
Our fruit, weather sin or righteousness, comes from what we love, or what our effections are toward.
To know Jesus is to love Him. One who doesn't know God, loves himself &/or the world, and in turn he sins.
The reason that one sins is because he loves it more that HIM who can deliver him from it, and that is because one does not know HIM, or refuses to know HIM.
If you Love the ONE who can deliver you from sin more than sin, you wouldn't choose to sin.
For example:
Do you try not to cheat on your wife?
No, there is no need to "try" because you naturally don't cheat on your wife because you love her.
You naturally sin because you love it and/or you don't know and love Christ, However, if you love the one who keeps you from sin, you would naturally not sin.
Do not think that I mean sinless perfection, All I mean it the practice of sin or habitually sinning.
A Christian still might sin, but he hates it and does not to it by habit, nor does he practice sin.
Furthermore, a Christian is covered by HIS blood for the forgiveness of sins.
The root/heart of the matter is that the inclination/affections of our will effects individual choices that we make. The choice that you make will naturally follow your inclination/affections. Consequently, if you love yourself or the world more than the One commanding you or His law, you cannot consistently do things that please the commander. Your decisions are in bondage to your affections and inclinations so that you only do what you have favor towards.
Love God, hate sin; Love yourself and the world, hate God.
The truth of the matter is selfishness or love of this world.
John 15:4b ...As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
Romans 11:16b ...and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Romans 11:24 For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree...
While we were not yet grafted into the cultivated olive tree(Christ), we were of our own tree with the root of our self or in this world. If our root is of our self or the world, we are selfish &/or worldly.
One is only born innocent; sin is not charged where there is no law(Rom 4:15 & 5:13 & 7:9). However, one is also born as Adam, made from the dust and inherently weak(Mat 26:41b)
A person who does not know Christ is selfish/worldly and in reliance on God for His Spirit to walk by it, not born with a sin nature eather.(Rom 8:3-7, Gal 5:16)
Reality proves that people do not have a "sin nature" just as an apple tree does not have an apple nature.
All sin is fruit from what man is rooted in, which is of either three things. Rooted in Christ, the world or self.
As the example from above:
John 15:4b ...As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
Romans 11:16b ...and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Romans 11:24 For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree...
Since Christ is the Root/Vine & man a tree/vinebranch.
If man is not grafted into Christ, he is selfish &/or worldly, because he has his own self as his root. Or he may also be worldly, for that is all he has(John 15:9, 1John 2:15)
This is the cause of all mans wickedness, that man is of the world and selfish and not of Christ and loving.
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