Are Men Born Sinners? - Library of Theology

The doctrine of a natural inability to obey God is a devilish doctrine that is stumbling
multitudes of professing Christians into hell.
12. The doctrine of original sin adds to and takes from the Bible.
God says, "Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye
diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which
I command you." Deut. 4:2. But the whole original sin dogma is an addition to the Bible.
For instance, the doctrine of original sin teaches that the whole human race existed in
Adam and sinned with him when he transgressed, that we had one common will with
Adam, that his will was the will of the race, and that when Adam revolted, the will of the
race revolted with him. But you can search your Bible through from beginning to end,
and you will never find this taught in it. It is not taught there. It is man's doctrine added to
the Bible.
Again, the doctrine of original sin teaches that Adam was our federal head or moral
representative, and that God made a covenant with him, agreeing to give eternal life to
him and all his descendants if he obeyed, and threatening condemnation upon him and all
his descendants if he disobeyed. But is any of this teaching in the Bible? No, the Bible is
silent about this imagined covenant made with Adam.
Again, men teach that God created us under such physical laws as would cause us all to
be born sinners. They teach that we are born with a corrupt sinful nature which is the
fountain and cause of all our actual sins, that we sin unavoidably because of that nature,
and that even the Christian sins necessarily because of the "remaining corruptions" of his
inborn sin nature. Can these unholy and grotesque teachings be found in the Bible? No.
They are all additions to the Bible.
Does the Bible speak of the "Immaculate Conception"? Does it speak of infant baptism
for the remission of original sin? Does it speak of "Limbo"? Does it talk about an "inborn
sin nature" or an Adamic sin nature"? Does it mention "original sin" or "actual sin,"
making a distinction between the two? No. None of these doctrines and none of these
terms can be found in the Bible. They are all inventions of men and additions to the
Bible.
But the doctrine of original sin also takes from the Word of God. It takes away those
passages in the Bible that declare that men are guilty and blameworthy for their sins, and
makes their sins the unfortunate result of being born with a sinful nature. It takes away all
those passages in the Bible that teach that God is loving, good, and just and makes him
cruel and unjust, by teaching that God condemned the whole human race for Adam's sin.
It takes away those passages in the Bible that teach that men are created upright, with a
good nature, and in the image and likeness of God, by teaching that since Adam's sin,
men are no longer created in the image of God, but are born defiled in "all the faculties
and parts of soul and body." It takes away those texts in the Bible that teach that Jesus