What is the human nature? Are we to believe that this nature is inherently sinful?
Surprisingly, the KJV Bible never describes the human nature as sinful. This adjective was added later in the newer Bible versions after those in error such as John Calvin invented theological positions that influenced the denominations who contributed to the more modern translations.
This is observing that the noun “nature” is never preceded by the adjective “sinful” and so must be discarded as an invention of men who read more into the text than what God intended for us to learn plainly.
Therefore, it is wise to not consider it sinful, but rather neither good nor evil naturally.
When Adam and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they were then actually able to do both good and evil as a result of the knowledge obtained.
Since then, mankind has perceived both good and evil when the mind is capable of containing the knowledge.
Mankind is designed upright and chooses disobedience, which is contrary to our own bodies and conscience.
– sin is not natural, but is instead unnatural
When we choose what is contrary, we choose lawlessness and so make ourselves sinners since sin is imputed when there is a law and we break it.
– later on, because Jesus fulfilled the law and so reconciled the world, sin is now no longer imputed to mankind during this time
– this is because he was made a curse for mankind even though he had not broken the law…therefore, he died a sinner’s death, which is contrary to the law and so made the law unjust
– as a result, he defeated death since he died wrongly accused and so naturally rose from the dead
– rising from the dead was far less about being a miracle and much more about turning the law upside down as wrongly condemning a perfect man
Once we learn that nature is never described as sinful, it becomes alarming that many believe what’s unwritten and so lean more on tradition than truth.
When Paul wrote in Romans 5 that sin entered the world, he did not write that sin entered mankind, but later wrote that the prince of the power of the air blinds many into becoming children of disobedience and wrote in Ephesians 2 that we conversed in the lusts of our flesh and so were by nature the children of wrath rather than being born with a sinful nature – conversing comes first.
– choices are first made in conversations with ourselves, which make us disobedient
In 1 Corinthians 2:12, we learn that the world has a spirit. Sin entered into the world’s spirit, which is separate from mankind.
It is imperative that we continue to address vocabulary and syntax, because wrong doctrines like the sinful nature are taught so frequently that many assume they’re true.
Many think Psalm 51:5 is concrete proof that the sinful nature is a reality.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
- let’s take a look at what grammar and syntax reveal
- The second clause begins with a conjunction followed by a prepositional phrase
- “in sin” is followed by the past tense verb “did”
- followed by the possessive pronoun “my” and the noun “mother”
- Then, we encounter the action verb “conceive” and the pronoun “me”
- We can see that the pronoun “me” is not descriptive of “in sin”, but that the “mother” is described “in sin”
- A quick way to hear the sentence meaning is to replace “sin” with “love”
- And we have “in love did my mother conceive me”
- Clearly, the child was not in love when conceived, but the mother was.
- Astonishingly, the first clause then gleams with new understanding since we can finally see that the mother shaped the child in her iniquity, not that God shaped the child in a sin nature.
Other interesting attempts at persuading people that the “sinful nature” is real have been tried, but all of them fail one by one since they all have their beginning in false preconception.
That’s how false doctrines arise…misinterpretation followed by more misinterpretation until an entire theory is invented and the whole bible seems to teach it.
Jesus never believed in a sinful nature…Paul never believed in a sinful nature…none of the disciples or other apostles knew anything of it….and so, we must dump it quickly into the garbage where it belongs.
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