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Does the Bible teach Original Sin?

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Humble Disciple said:
In the words of Calvinist apologist Cornelius Van Til, "Sin did not take away from man any of the natural powers that God had given him."
The Defense of the Faith

This would include our natural ability to choose between accepting or rejecting God's free offer of salvation in the Gospel.

If we were created in the image and likeness of God, that includes free will if God is a free being.
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God is not "free" to lie,sin,or change.
His Holy nature,who He is does not allow it.
If God dies not by have it,no one does.
 
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Humble Disciple said:
According to the 1689 London Baptist Confession, which was based on the Calvinist Westminster Confession, babies go to hell that are not God's elect:



This is a horrific teaching, and contrary to what Baptists have traditionally taught.

If original sin is true, as in inherited guilt rather than an inherited inclination toward sin, then unbaptized babies go to hell, which is contrary to what Baptists have traditionally taught.

This is why the Catholic church practices infant baptism and formulated the unbiblical doctrine of limbo.
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The confession of faith statement is 100% biblical leaving it in God's control.
 
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