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Iniquity is sin, an act of evil-ness; separated-ness from God. In the NT it is taken to mean "lawlessness". "I will do my own thing". Lucifer had that mindset in Heaven and by the willful act of his unsubmitted "self", altered forever his disposition thereby intro'ing sin [evil] into God's creation. Lucifer was the author of it. Sin and evil are one in the same when considering it to be a state of being. It is a relationship either with our "self" [nature] or someone outside our "self" [nature].
The act of sinning is something we do and not necessarily what we are. Adam had a relationship with God. He sinned. David, a man afer God's own heart, sinned. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob they all had relationships with God they all sinned at one time or other. They all did there own thing apart from God; the evil thing, and when they did they [we] paid a price.
Men are born innocent, but in evil; separated from God.
Being born in evil doesn't mean man's nature is any different than Adam's before the transgression. Man can still be righteous, Abel proved that. However, he can't ever be righteous enough to cancel out the evil of the curse he found himself under; that he was born into. Only by someone from the outside coming into his realm could that ever be accomplished. Enter Christ, made flesh.
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The act of sinning is something we do and not necessarily what we are. Adam had a relationship with God. He sinned. David, a man afer God's own heart, sinned. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob they all had relationships with God they all sinned at one time or other. They all did there own thing apart from God; the evil thing, and when they did they [we] paid a price.
Men are born innocent, but in evil; separated from God.
Being born in evil doesn't mean man's nature is any different than Adam's before the transgression. Man can still be righteous, Abel proved that. However, he can't ever be righteous enough to cancel out the evil of the curse he found himself under; that he was born into. Only by someone from the outside coming into his realm could that ever be accomplished. Enter Christ, made flesh.
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