Sin Nature

*What is the "Sin Nature" or "Sinful Nature?
After both Adam and Eve rebelled against God in the Garden of Eden [refer to "Original-Sin"] we learn that God provides several changes in their lives. One of those changes is found in Genesis 3:15 "And I will put enmity [or hostility] between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he [Jesus] will crush your head, and you will strike his heel." (from New International Version) where we learn of the fate of Eve's offspring.  In Psalm 51:5 "Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me."  (from New International Version) David also shares with us when this sinfulness begins in our lives.

*Bible References:

Genesis 3:15 "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel." (from New International Version)

Psalms 51:5 "Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me."  (from New International Version)

Romans 5:12 "Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned-"  (from New International Version)

Romans 7:5 "For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death."  (from New International Version)

Romans 7:18 "I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature."  (from New International Version)

Romans 7:25 "Thanks be to God-through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin."  (from New International Version)

Romans 8:3-4 "For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man,   4 in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit." (from New International Version)

Romans 8:9 "You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ."  (from New International Version)

Ephesians 2:3 "All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath."  (from New International Version)

Ephesians 4:22-24 "You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness." (from New International Version)

2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"  (from New International Version)

Ephesians 4:22-24 "You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."  (from New International Version)

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*Overview:
Because of Adam and Eve, we are all born with a natural inclination to sin against God called the "sin nature".  We also know that there is an age or point of mental capability before one is held accountable for the sin [refer to "Sin"].

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