Each one of us is wonderfully made. The writer of Psalms wrote, "For it was You who formed my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, Wonderful are Your works..." (Psalm 139:13-14) And then, there is that Genesis Word which tells us that each of us, like all of the created human creatures, have been made in the likeness of the Creator. We bear not only the image of earthly parents, but in a different way the image of the Creator. There is within us something which speaks of the essence of the One who has made us.
As we consider all of this it is hard to accept that sin comes to us in the womb or in the instant of our birth. It makes far more sense to speak of sin coming to us as a result of the choices we make which bring dishonor to the Creator who created us. The Apostle Paul also addresses the origin of our sin in that first chapter of Romans where he lifts up the three exchanges we make that result in losing our awareness of our original nature. (Romans 1:23-25)
As we pause in the midst of that section we hear him saying, "they exchanged the truth about God for a lie." (Romans 1:25) It brings to mind something Jesus said at the end of the section of Scripture known as the Sermon on the Mount. To use anything but the truth about God as the foundation for our living means seeing everything finally falling down around us. Building life on a lie which is a definition for anything embraced which is not consistent with what can be known about God is something which takes us away from our Creator and far away from the original nature implanted within us from the very beginning.
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