Why is everybody a sinner?

Do we sin because we are sinners, or are we sinners because we sinned?

Death is the result of sin.

And the reason why everybody dies is it because everybody's tainted by sin.

You say, wait a way, what about babies that die within six weeks after they're born or within six

hours after they're born? They're killed for their sins? No, they're not killed for committing

actual sin, but that child is born in sin.

He's born infected and blemished with the fallenness of the race from which he has been brought.

The Bible teaches that.

We may not like it.

And some of the natural historians and philosophers say, well, all this is is nothing but a myth

or a fable or a parable. But again, we have to account for the fact that everybody in the world

sins. Why is it that everybody sins? Why is everybody a sinner? Do we sin because we are sinners or are we sinners because we sinned?

We sin because we are sinners.

Which is to say that every human being has a sin nature.

A nature that is fallen.

And out of this sin nature flows sins.

I am a sinner with a capital S.

That's why I am a sinner with a little S. That's why I am a sinner with a little less.

Now, where people get confused is that people will ask me often, do you believe in original

sin?

Well, of course I believe in original sin.

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