re the doctrine of original sin in article may athos rutgers edu eugene bigelow ebay sun com writes eugene bigelow writes doesn t the bible say that god is a fair god sic if this is true how can this possibly be fair to the infants andrew byler writes what do you mean fair god is just giving to everyone what they deserve as all infants are in sin from the time of conception cf romans psalm they cannot possibly merit heaven and as purgatory is for the purging of temporal punishment and venial sins it is impossible that origianl sin can be forgiven why is it fair to punish you me and the rest of humanity because of what adam and eve did suppose your parents committed some crime before you were born and one day the cops come to your door and throw you in jail for it would you really think that is fair i know i wouldn t well suppose your mother was a crack addict and crack user abuser while she was pregnant suppose your husband gave you some sdt this recently happened to a close friend of my wife and mine often the consequences of our sin are at least partially inflicted on innocent people several times in the ot this is pointed out even saying that descendants would suffer consequences for a person s sin for several generations even today we see multi generational to coin a phrase effects from alcoholism child abuse and spousal abuse just to name three so god s definition of fair and ours differ some points of perspective though the predisposition towards sinning is now inbred see webster s first definition of inbred thanks to adam it is arrogant and foolish for any of us to think we would have done any different if we were in their shoes i know myself pretty well and i m just not that good take god s word for it neither are you there is no one righteous more important when a person decides to be a disciple of jesus god promises supernatural help in overcoming our physical self s sinful tendency we can of course choose to ignore this help rom god made mankind upright but men have gone in search of many schemes eccl mark mark wuest my opinions not at t s mdw violin hr att com sun mailtool ok mdw trumpet hr att com next mail
