Tha Fall of Man and the Law of Sin

[Esaias]

Doug, sin is a 'principle' in that all sins flow from the heart. As such it must be a principle. But that is not the same as 'sin nature' or 'original sin' residing in an embedded sense in human nature itself.

Jesus said no man can serve two masters. Therefore, if one is sinning, one is serving sin, not God. An evil tree does not bring forth good fruit, nor can a good tree bring forth evil fruit. A heart that has chosen to disobey God's Great Commandment of LOVE is a heart serving sin. Thus, all choices and actions flowing from that heart are tainted, are selfish, are sinful.

But again, that does nothing to prove or show any 'inbred sin nature' or 'original sin' or that human anture itself is 'sinful and automatically and a priori exposes the person to wrath and judgement' which is the doctrine of original sin according to the Augustinian view and Arminian view.

The Federal view of original sin does not hold to such an idea, and in fact proponents of the Federal view of original sin regularly refute such ideas as a matter of course.

But then again, the Augustinian, Arminian, and Calvinist (Federal) views of original sin are in error to begin with.