When we talk about original sin, we don’t mean the sin that Adam and Eve committed, but the result of that first sin. Original sin refers to our sinful condition. In other words, we sin because we are sinners; it is not that we are sinners because we sin. Since the fall of mankind, it is the nature of human beings to be inclined and drawn toward sinfulness. David wrote, “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me” (Ps. 51:5). Not only do we have life in the womb, we have corrupt life in the womb. At the very moment we’re conceived, we have already
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