What theologians often call original sin — sometimes described as inbred sin — is the inner condition of the heart from which sinful actions...

Abraham’s spiritual life unfolds through three major turning points — three decisive moments that mark his growth in faith and obedience. Th...

QUESTION: Why are not the children of entirely sanctified parents born without any bent toward sin? ANSWER: This bent is derived from fall...

In Luke 1:15 the angel Gabriel predicts the following of John the Baptist - "...for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must ...

QUESTION: Could not God have refused to create the tree bearing forbidden fruit, and in this way have prevented the sin of Adam and Eve? A...

QUESTION: In what sense may sin be transmitted? ANSWER: Not as guilt, which implies an intelligent, willful, wrong act, but as a downward te...

QUESTION: What are the Biblical proofs of inbred sin or birth sin? ANSWER: They are chiefly found in the Old Testament, such as Ps 51:5, ...

QUESTION: On what grounds is the dying infant freed from Adamic depravity? ANSWER; On the ground of the atonement made for the fallen race...

QUESTION: Is  it not a fact that all Scriptural texts speaking of sin in the singular number have reference to inbred sin and never refer to...

QUESTION: Are we not responsible for inbred sin? ANSWER: I cannot he responsible for any inborn quality. But when I find that there is a per...

QUESTION: When did the term "original sin" originate in Christian theology? ANSWER:  The doctrine of an inborn propensity to sin...

There were three remarkable transition points in the religious development of Abraham. The first was separation from his kindred and coun...

QUESTION: Are the phrases "original sin," "birth sin," "inbred sin" found in the Bible? ANSWER: No. But a do...

Growth in grace, while accompanied by increasing power to abstain from actual sin, has no power to annihilate the spirit of sin, commonly ca...

QUESTION: Are we to understand that the regenerated can live without sin? ANSWER: "Sin properly defined," says Wesley, "is ...

But is not sin in the heart necessary to keep the soul humble? Will not spiritual pride lift itself up as soon as sin is destroyed ? As wel...

QUESTION: Opposers to holiness in our town assert that those who have no bent toward sin are incapable of temptation, that Adam before his f...

What is the difference then, between sin in a sinner, and sin in a believer? The same difference that there is between poison in a rattlesna...