We are all born without sin until we sin. Yes – our freedom of choice predisposes us to make God-opposing choices. I’ve never looked at a precious baby to not think he/she perfect – for now. So what is this sin-curse. Do we have choices? Did the devil make me do it? Genesis Chapter three addresses the curse of sin. Yes – the serpent was crafty but I wasn’t there. First, God addresses the serpent. Then to Eve He says, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth,…and your husband will rule over you”. Thanks nameless woman. Then God says to the man, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife,…cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field; by the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Funny that the first thing Adam does after God speaks to him is name His wife Eve. Before that she was called ‘woman’. The Hebrew meaning of ‘Adam’ means of the ground. His disobedience alienated him from God, his wife, and all of nature, and set off the chain-reaction of sin. Adam’s name is not mentioned until Gen 4:25. There is no baby complicit to this. My children were innocent until they weren’t. Remember the terrible two’s?
