Are Men Born Sinners? - Library of Theology

with the doctrine of sin. God hates this Nicolaitan doctrine because it has a corrupting
influence on the Christian's conduct, attitudes, and thinking. No other false doctrine has
so profoundly warped the Christian's understanding of the biblical doctrines of sin,
holiness, and God's grace to deliver from sin. This false doctrine makes sin necessary,
holiness impossible, and the power of God's grace nothing but a feeble, empty promise.
Listen to what the doctrine of original sin promises the Christian:
This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated..."
Westminster Confession
By reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly, nor only, will that which is
good, but doth also will that which is evil. Westminster Confession
They deplore their inability to love their Redeemer, to keep themselves from sin, to live a
holy life in any degree adequate to their own convictions of their obligations...They
recognize it as the fruit and evidence of the corruption of their nature derived as a sad
inheritance from their first parents. Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology, Vol. II, p. 273
No man is able by any grace received in this life, perfectly to keep the commandments of
God, but doth daily break them in thought, word, and deed. Larger Catechism
But the Word of God promises something completely contrary to the false teaching of
original sin. It promises a new birth, a new life, and total deliverance from all sin. Paul
said, "If any man be in Christ he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all
things are become new." I Cor. 5:17. The angel said to Joseph: "Thou shalt call his name
JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins." Matt. 1:21. Jesus said, "Whosoever
committeth sin is the servant of sin...If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be
free indeed." John 8:34, 36 Paul repeated again and again in Romans that the Christian is
made free from sin through the grace of God in Christ Jesus:
How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? Rom. 6:2
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be
destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Rom. 6:6
Sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Rom.
6:14
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart
that form of doctrine that was delivered unto you. Being then made free from sin, ye
became servants of righteousness. Rom. 6:17, 18
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto
holiness, and the end everlasting life. Rom. 6:22