Well, we must have had the capacity to sin in order to commit the first sin, but the Bible tells us that once the first sin was committed, our fundamental nature changed for the worse.
I think in our first state, we could choose to sin or not sin, but now we can’t (freely at least, without Christ) choose not to sin.
Well that sounds good..still... how do you explain then those ‘without Christ’ who also choose not to sin??....
Pinging a couple others to this for their input as well because I,m just not sure
I don’t think that we ever had the choice to not sin until we became born again.
We were born into sin and have a sin nature that is natural to us. Therefore we sin, because we have a sin nature that we inherited from Adam.