I heard a Brother preach at our church this morning. He spoke about he having to go to a wake this evening, and then doing the funeral tomorrow of a young man who died of a drug overdose, and that it was going to be hard, seeing that the mother would be there. He then said he knew people who were drug addicts, and they stated they didn't like it, but they couldn't get off the drugs because they were addicted to it. I was a "sin addict", if you will, and there were times I tried to quit sinning by myself, but I couldn't do it all by myself, because I was hooked on sinning, and didn't want to let go of it. I didn't like where sin was going to eventually take me, but my love of it over rode it. That's when God came in and broke me lose from the "sin addiction", and set me free. He does for us that which we couldn't do.
Well, a drug addict wasn't born that way, he chose to start taking drugs when he wasn't addicted and through habitual use became addicted. I would argue that men learn to and become addicted to all sin the same way, but I doubt you would listen.
You may look at porn, but you weren't born with a Hustler in your hand. You may smoke, but you weren't born with a Marlboro in your mouth. You may drink, but you weren't born with a Budweiser in your hand etc...
Now, you keep practicing sin and you will become addicted to it. Nobody is born an adulterer, but once you cheat on your wife, the next time it gets a little easier. Nobody is born a thief, but when you take that $10 out of the cash register, next time it is a little easier. This is how sin works.
Jesus did not say we sin because we are enslaved to sin, he said the exact opposite, that the person who sins becomes a servant or slave to sin.
Jhn 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
Jesus said whosoever commits (not born) sin is the servant or slave of sin.
Paul said the exact same thing.
Rom 6:16 Know ye not,
that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey,
his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Paul doesn't say here that you were a servant of sin and therefore are compelled to sin. No, he says that to whom ye "yield" (showing choice) yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are "to whom ye obey".
The order here is of utmost importance. Calvinism teaches the exact reverse of scripture. Calvinism teaches that you are born a servant of sin and are compelled to sin.
Scripture teaches the exact opposite, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey.
If you were a slave to sin, it is because you willingly chose to sin in the first place. You were not forced or compelled to sin.
