In my post #116 you will see Bible Highlighter continuing to ignore the elephant in the room.
Adam sinned with an upright meaning righteous nature, created in the image of God,
Genesis 1:27 ; Ecclesiastes 7:29
It is not an elephant in the room. Adam was influenced by his wife (Eve) to sin, and Eve was influenced by the serpent to sin.
This influence is similar to our having a sin nature. So we were on the same playing field but in a different way.
I am not saying that one cannot sin with having a good nature like Adam had; But that still does not undo tons of other verses in the Bible on how Adam tainted his descendants by his one time sin (Which included death).
1. In Adam all die (1 Corinthians 15:22).
2. By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men (Romans 5:12).
3. For as by one man's disobedience many were
made sinners (Romans 5:19).
4. We.. were by nature the children of wrath (Ephesians 2:3).
5. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience (Ephesians 2:2).
6. The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth (Genesis 8:21).
7. What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous? If God puts not trust in His saints, and the heavens are not pure in His sight, how much less man, who is abominable and filthy, who drinks iniquity like water! (Job 15:14-16).
8. The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand who seek God. They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, no, not one. (Psalms 14:2-3).
9. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me (Psalms 51:5).
10. Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones? Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men? No, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. (Psalms 58:1-5).
11. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9).
12. And you…
who were dead in trespasses and sins, (Ephesians 2:1).
Here is my point to Bible Highlighter's intentional unresponsive explanation to the error in his doctrine,
If Bible Highlighter is correct, he believes babies are going to hell.
This is your standard MO (Modus Operandi). I have seen you use this tactic before in other threads. You love to falsely claim towards others a belief that the other person does not actually believe. I don’t believe babies go to hell if they die. I believe they are saved by God’s grace. But babies can potentially die physically thereby showing that the wages of sin is death and also that babies are not entirely innocent (Because of the stain of sin from Adam). For if a baby was 100% innocent, then they should not be able to die (Which is the punishment of sin). The stain of sin has effected the whole human race and we see this with people dying, getting sick, etcetera. These things (death, sickness, etc.) will not exist in the final New Earth.
Ecclesiastes 7:29,
Truly, this only I have found: That God made man upright(righteous), but they have sought out many schemes.
I read this verse as saying:
God made man
(Adam) upright, and they
(his descendants who are a part of him) sought out many schemes.
Again, you have to read and balance this verse in light of the rest of Scripture (Which says the heart is deceitful, etc.).
But for some odd reason you just don’t like the idea of what the Bible teaches on this topic.
The Scriptures are clear in that we were sinners, and we were corrupted by sin.
No man has not sinned except Jesus Christ.