Men are not compelled to sin, otherwise men would ALWAYS sin the greatest sin possible.
THEY ARE NOT...... Really?!?
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If you were a sinner and truly enslaved to sin as you teach, you could not possibly return the wallet. You must obey your nature and keep the wallet.
Even Calvinists recognize this weakness in their doctrine, and so argue men are not as bad as they could possibly be. But this is a contradiction and shows men are not enslaved to sin and have the ability to do good.
The scriptures clearly say men can do good.
Luk 6:33 And if ye
do good to them which
do good to you, what thank have ye?
for sinners also do even the same.
Jesus knows proper doctrine and what "good" is, and he said sinners do good.
God's commandments and punishment would be nonsensical unless men have the ability to obey them.
The scriptures do not teach that we sin because we are a servant of sin, they teach that when we sin we become the servant of sin.
Jhn 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
When you commit sin, you "sell" yourself to sin like a slave in the ancient markets. You now belong to sin, and the payment for sin is death. It does not mean you are compelled to sin. This is a great misunderstanding.
Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal,
sold under sin.
Again, this is the mistake folks make, the scriptures do not teach we are compelled to sin, but they do teach when we sin we are sold to sin like a servant and belong to it. When you trust Christ you die to sin and no longer belong to it, just as a wife no longer belongs to her husband if he dies. This is what the scriptures mean by being a servant of sin.
