Amanda.Greene@ReligionNews.com
Are we born as sinners even as infants?
Or are we closest to the Divine as we'll ever get at birth?
Topics:
Faith,
Doctrine & Practice
Beliefs:
Interfaith
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birth, evil, sin, soul
David Scott says: "More important than how we are born is how we develop a conscience in which empathy and altruism can emerge through this inborn competition that can rob us of our humanity."
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Cynthia Barnett says: "Does it take humility, persistence and great faith to deny sin and express our original purity? You bet! But people do it every day."
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From a Buddhist perspective, “Are we born sinful?” is not an important question. While Buddhism does recognize that actions may be moral or immoral, the concept of sin in the Christian sense is non-existent in Buddhism. But Buddhism—like Christianity—is soteriological in nature; we need to be “s...
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Andy Lee says: "I struggled with this Christian precept until my children turned two. It was then that I knew that there was such thing as original sin because one of the first words that came out of their mouths (all three children) was the word, “Mine!” I write this with a smile on my face and hoping you catch the humor of this story, but the truth is: I didn’t teach my children this. Selfish behavior was just in them."
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Daniel Thompson says: "While a newborn baby is certainly not guilty of sin when they enter into the world, the sin nature passed along to all descendants of Adam and Eve is present in them from the moment of conception making it impossible to live a “sinless” life and please God."
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Fran Salone-Pelletier says: "Born sinful??? I surely hope not. In fact, I cannot believe that God would create anything or anyone who is flawed and then have us understand that we are made in his divine image and likeness."
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Bonny Burns says: "Precious children, in my Christian opinion, are not born sinful. They are born into a sinful world and it can quickly influence them."
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Jana Greene says: "Are we born sinners? Oh, yes. We are all born into a sinful nature. We are born wanting our way as a means of survival, but as we approach adulthood we learn to want our way as a means of manipulation. Accountability is another story - babies and children are not cognizent of sin nature until they mature. They are innocents."
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Amanda Greene | Dec 7, 2012 | 6:36pm
These are some excellent responses, WilmingtonFAVS writers!
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