The Bible is absolutely crystal clear that all children are sinners from conception, all children. The principle of iniquity is embedded in the human race. Children are born morally corrupt. They are born with an irresistible bent toward evil. And any notion that children are born morally neutral and free from a predisposition to sin is absolutely contrary to Scripture.
All humans are born in sin. If infants were not sinful, if they were not morally corrupt, then they wouldn't die. If they were born innocent or pure or morally neutral there would be no basis for their death. The very fact that they die indicates that the disease of sin is there in them because sin is the killer. It is in their inherited sin nature that the seeds of death are planted.
[John MacArthur]
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Genesis 6:5 … And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Psalm 14:2-3 … The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psalm 51:5 … Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psalm 58:3 … The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Ecclesiastes 7:20 … For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Jeremiah 17:9 … The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Romans 3:12 … They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Ephesians 2:3 … Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.❤
