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To: brent13a

psalm 51:5

david - surely i was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.


32 posted on 07/10/2013 5:44:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
psalm 51:5
david - surely i was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.


The poetry of Psalms is easy to purposefully misinterpret. David is simply exclaiming he was conceived into a world of sin.
It’s no different than a woman saying “In drunkenness my husband beat me”’or a child saying “in anger my father whipped me,” the woman was not drunk when she was beaten nor was the child angry when he was whipped.
The woman says “In drunkenness my husband beat me,” because her husband was drunk when he beat her. Likewise the father was angry when he whipped the child.
Therefore, David exclaims his mother brought him forth into a world of sin NOT that he was conceived full of sin in the womb.

Behold, I was shaped in (a world of) unlawfulness, and in (a world of) sin did my mother create me.

The Word of G-d teaches that sin is not inherited and that a child must reach a certain level of maturity before he is able to chose between lawfulness and unlawfulness.

Jesus’ teaches (based on the Word of G-d) that qualities of little children are set forth as models for those who would aspire to enter the kingdom. It makes absolutely zero sense that Jesus would tell us to emulate little evil sinners that are sinners from birth.

Like I said above, believing in the non-biblical doctrine of “original sin” means that if G-d creates us in His image then he is creating corrupted sinful humans in His corrupted sinful image.
37 posted on 07/10/2013 9:48:23 PM PDT by brent13a
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