SIN-ORIGINAL
G.K.
Chesterton once said it is surprising that people have rejected the doctrine of
original sin because it is the only doctrine that can be empirically verified.
Quoted in: Who Will Be Saved? Edited by: House, Paul and Thornbury,
Gregory. Crossway, 2000, p. 100.
Men are not
sinners because they choose to sin; they choose to sin because they are
sinners.
Walter J. Chantry
Man's Will- Free Yet Bound, The Banner of
Truth magazine, Issue 140, by permission Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. May
1975.
Any man who
declares children to be born perfect never was a father. Your
child without evil? You without eyes, you mean!
C.H. Spurgeon
11.104.
The so-called
innocence of children is more a matter of weakness of limb, than purity of
heart.
Augustine
Original
sin…means that people by nature are hostile to God,
utterly unable to obey God out of pure motives or from a pure heart, and
therefore unable to do anything that truly pleases God (Rom. 8:7-8). All Adam’s
offspring are born naturally depraved and with a bent toward sin and rebellion.
John MacArthur
The
Fulfilled Family, 2005, p. 87.
More
empirical evidence exists for the doctrine of original sin than for any other
truth of Scripture.
Author Unknown
Original sin, therefore, seems to be a hereditary
depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused into all parts of the soul,
which first makes us liable to God’s wrath, then also brings forth in us those
works which Scripture calls “works of the flesh” [Gal. 5:19].
John Calvin
Institutes, II:1.8.
Even a child
in the womb and coming from the womb is wayward and sinful. We often are taught
that man becomes a sinner when he sins. The Bible teaches that man sins because
he is a sinner. Your children are never morally neutral, not even from the
womb.
Tedd Tripp
Shepherding a Child’s Heart, Shepherd
Press, 1995, p. 37. Used by Permission.
Jesus teaches us that there is
something far more fundamental to our sinfulness than the actual sins we
commit. Our sins do not make us sinful. Rather, we commit sins because at the
very center of our lives, we are sinful. Sin has invaded the inner recesses of
our personalities.
Tom Ascol
The Heart of the Problem, Tabletalk, June
2008, p. 57, Used by Permission.