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Bible Study Sin Nature, or Nature to sin

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We all have a sin nature as we have all been conceived and born into a sinful world by that of Satan's deceit. IE: the fall of Adam and Eve being deceived by Satan using the serpent as his vessel, Genesis 3:1-15. Like Adam and Eve we are created and born without sin as God created each of us and can not even look upon sin so why would God create us sinful, John 9:31; Romans 8:7,8: Mark 15:34 (God did not forsake his son on the cross, but had to look away as Jesus was taking all our sin upon himself.

Adam and Eve were created sinless, but placed into a sinful world because of Satan being cast down to the ground and became sin to the nations before that of God creating Adam, Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:13-17. Their desire was to be like God and saw no wrong with their decision, but when the knowledge of good and evil was opened before them it was at that time they knew they disobeyed God and tried to hide their shame. The consequence of their disobedience was God casting them out of the beautiful garden and casting them out into a sinful world.

There is nowhere in scripture that actually says Adam or Eve repented and asked for forgiveness, but we do see that God provided for them as he made them clothing from animals to cover their shame and we can correlate that as the first animal (blood) sacrifice for the atonement of sin (shame) leading up to that of Jesus being the final blood sacrifice for sin as God clothes us in His righteousness.

Genesis 3:21-24 we see God clothing them and also sending them out of the garden for judgment passed on them so they could not eat from the tree of life and literally live forever, but to now having to work the land God provided for them outside of the garden and eat from it till they returned back to the dust of the ground through physical death. We can also read in Genesis 4:1 that Eve gave birth to Cain and exclaimed she got a male child from the Lord so I do feel they repented and God forgave them as God continued to provide for them, but not the way in which He intended to in he garden.

David’s transgressions were from a sin nature of being born into a sinful world and not that of being born a sinner when he made the statement in Psalms 51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me. David’s transgressions were that of lusting after things that were not his, 2 Samuel 12:1-24, in wanting more than what God had already blessed him with and he became an angry man full of greed until God humbled his heart through the death of his son he had with Bathsheba and once David was humbled he returned back to Gods grace and became that man of God that God predestined him to be.

Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth. They are not born astray, but stray into sin after birth by that of sin that is already in the world that deceives them. A child will imitate that of the adults around them so they will either imitate that of God and His goodness in love as seen in their parents or will imitate that of evil that is taught by their parents. The child does not know yet of good or evil, but their life will be influenced by what they learn, Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Matthew 18:3 Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven. What Jesus is saying here is that we need to be converted in all humility like that of a child as their example of humility as being humble and without pride.

Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? As a child we take on our physical attributes from our physical parents, but our spirit we get from God when he breathed live into us. God created us in His image and if we were already born with a sin nature that knew evil then that would mean Gods image would be evil since we are created in His image. But we know that is not the case, because in God there is no evil and we are born without evil in us, but are born into an evil world.

2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. If we were conceived and born with evil in us then how could we wax worse in evil and be deceived by others as we would already be evil, but again we are made in the pure image of God so how can evil be found in us before we were even born from the womb.

Luke 8:14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

How do we get an honest and good heart if we are not born with one as it is only by the evil that is in the world that will cause us to be deceived if we lust after it. Once again, train up a child in the way they should go and they will not turn from it. Parents are the ones who we get our attributes from as a child as we are influenced by what we see and hear around us.​
 
We see in Adam and Eve that they did not sin because of a sin nature. They did not have one and still they sinned. So we do not sin because of a sin nature we were born with and cannot help. We sin because...

"your passionsa are at war within you?b 2You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly,"

How come James did not say it is because of your sin nature? No one in the whole of the Bible said we sin because of an inborn sin nature we were born with. No one. But choices become. habits and habits become our character. We make ourselves into creatures who tend to sin. We weren't born like that. Job was called the most righteous man on earth and neither Satan nor God reminded each other of Job's inborn sin nature.

But the verse that changed my view was when God spoke to Esau. Read it and your eyes will be opened if you will. God told Esau that sin was OUTSIDE of him wanting to have him but he MUST RESIST IT. That was the golden chance to tell Esau (man) that he was born with a sin nature from Adam. God did not see sin as inside Esau but OUTSIDE WANTING IN. That was God's view. I read that one day and decided God's view of sin would be my view. I have been free from this "inborn sin nature you cannot help" ever since although my sin is my choice, no excuses. Sin is MUCH MORE PAINFUL to the pride since I cannot blame Adam anymore.
 
So, we are not born with a sin nature because God does not have a sin nature nor did He create one within us as we are beautifully made in His image of love, grace and mercy. So where does the nature to sin come from? It comes from the flesh, or I should say the lust of the flesh as flesh and Spirit can not mix as they are enmity against each other and flesh wants what the flesh wants. It's called Spiritual warfare as the flesh will always battle against the Spirit.

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned, Romans 5:12

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die, Genesis 2:17.

Do we say it was Adams fault because of him sin entered the world? Do we blame Satan as he deceives the mind? Or do we blame ourselves for walking in disobedience to God's first command not to eat of the tree of good and evil. We have all eaten from that fruit just as Adam and Eve ate of it as we all have Spiritually died and we will always have that nature to sin.

Rom 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Rom 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

How do we avoid that nature to sin? We become Spiritually born again from above and indwelled with the Holy Spirit in newness of life as we have then died to self and seek those things from above where Christ sits on the right hand of God, Colossians 3:1-17.

When Satan tries to buffet it just remember what Jesus told him.

Mat 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
 
I am SO thankful that my Sinful Nature was Powerfully cut out in the middle of the Arizona desert. The moment of my heart being Circumcised by Christ was beyond imagination. To be Redeemed from the Curse of the Lord is absolutely mind-changing . . . literally.

Colossians 2:11, 13 NLT - "When you came to Christ, you were "circumcised," but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision--the cutting away of your sinful nature." ... 13 "You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins."

Isn't the Gospel of Christ remarkable?
 
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