On X, this post by reasonable faith is getting quite a bit of attention, and I've heard several people call Dr. Craig a heretic for what he says

in this video, link attached. Can you please clarify your view? Are children born without sin

of any kind? Or are they born without Adamic guilt, but nevertheless have Adamic corruption?

If they go to heaven, isn't it still on the basis of God's grace rather than on the basis of their innocence?

Isn't it the case that children are born unregenerate and therefore were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind, Ephesians 2, 3?

Just looking for some clarification on this issue. Thank you, Nathaniel from the United States.

There is no universally agreed upon doctrine of sin in Christendom, and no ecumenical council

has pronounced on it. So the different creeds and confessions of various churches concerning the

doctrine of sin are binding only upon those who are members of a particular ecclesiastical

body. One man's orthodoxy may be another man's heresy.

The only justifiable inference that may be drawn from this video is, hmm, I guess Dr. Craig is not a Catholic, Lutheran, or Calvinist.

I wonder if he's Eastern Orthodox or Armenian or Wesleyan.

What is vastly more important than adherence to a denominational creed, therefore, is whether one's

doctrine of sin is biblical. On this score, my studied view is that the doctrine

that Adam's sin is imputed to each of his descendants so that each of us is guilty of Adam's sin

is unbiblical. This so-called doctrine of sin is unbiblical. This so-called doctrine of original guilt is not taught in the

story of the fall in Genesis 3, nor in Romans 5, as I've argued in my book, In Quest of the Historical Adam.

The story of the fall does describe the first or primal sin committed by human beings,

along with its disastrous consequences for all mankind.

But one looks in vain for any indication by the author that all humans

are held to be guilty of Adam's sin. Moreover, there is no suggestion in the story that Adam and

Eve's sin resulted in a corruption of human nature

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