Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 6006. The sin nature is the Bible’s explanation for a fact every honest person has noticed: we do not become sinners by sinning; we sin because something in us leans that way from the start. Why does no parent need to teach a toddler selfishness? Why do my best resolutions bend towards self so…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 6002. The origin of sin is one of the deepest questions a believer can ask, because it presses on the character of God Himself. If God is good, and God created everything, where did evil come from? Did He make it? Did it surprise Him? Scripture does not hand us a philosophical treatise, but…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 5035. Are we born sinners, or do we become sinners later by imitation and bad choices? Stand in any toddler group for an afternoon and you will have empirical data; no one teaches a child to snatch, lie, or scream “mine”. But the question deserves a better answer than anecdote, because what you believe…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 5012. The age of accountability is the idea that a child is not held responsible before God for accepting or rejecting the gospel until they are capable of genuinely understanding it. You will not find the phrase anywhere in your concordance, which makes some people suspicious of the whole concept. But plenty of sound…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 06074 The doctrine of original sin addresses one of the most basic questions in human experience: why do all people sin, and why is the world in the condition it is? The biblical answer traces everything back to a historical event in a real garden, with real consequences that have shaped every human life…