"FFC" <sashmiller@gmail.com> wrote in message
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This has become a subject of great discussion in my home group, and I
thought that as this is a Mars Hill of sorts, I would trow it out to
the masses to see what people here think too...

I have included a text below which makes some serious claims to the
error of "original sin"... What do people think about AT Overstreet's
stance, and what do you consider to be the biblical standpoint?

Faith, hope, love,
FFC.

I couldn't agree more with his stand on this. Most modern Christians (and
even some of my fellow Apologists) use the term as if it means "Adam
sinned and because of it we tend toward sin.". In reality and historically
it means "Adam sinned.... and without any conscious action or choice of
our own we are condemned to hell for it." Such a doctrine condemns infants
just out of their mothers' wombs, as well as those who will never progress
mentally much beyond that state, to eternity in hell. The former can be
supported by sound interpretation of Scripture (in context and in
continuity with the balance of verses on the subject) and the latter
cannot. "Original Sin" was created to justify the practice of infant
baptism... another unscriptural doctrine. The doctrine contradicts the
biblical definition of "sin" and of personal (versus generational)
responsibility and accountibility... such as:

"In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour
grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die
for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth
shall be set on edge." (Jeremiah 31:29-30)
(the same idea is echoed in Ezekiel in the first few verses of chpater 18)

Man is born with a "nature" that tends toward sin... and as soon as they
are capable of making the choice they will follow that nature and choose
to commit sin. They will be judged by God for THAT sin... not for Adam's.

Are Men Born Sinners? Copyright (c) 1995 by A. T. Overstreet