Why is everybody a sinner?

Do we sin because we are sinners or are we sinners because we sin.

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

You say, wait a minute, 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

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

We sin because 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 less that's why I am a sinner with a little less

now where people get confused is that people will ask me if do you believe in original sin, of course I believe in original sin and I just might add even though that concept is under

much attack today.

The idea of some notion of original sin is part of the heritage of every single church in the World Council

of Churches.

Well, when Catholic Church has a doctrine of original sin, the Lutheran church has a doctrine of original sin,

the Presbyterian churches have a doctrine of original sin, Episcopalian Church has a doctrine of original sin,

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