We are Born in Sin
“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God – Rom 3:23 (NIV)”
In God’s perception, the dimensions of sins are entirely different from that of ours. I was corrected of sin only after reading the Holy Bible. When I read the detailed enumeration of sins in God’s perception in various chapters of the Bible, I was shivering. Oh God, what a fool I had been so far in not knowing all these things earlier. Further, in God’s view there is nothing like a small sin or big sin. All are considered to be sins. If I have to write what are all considered as sins as per God’s version to make every one aware of it, I think I need to write a separate book on the subject. Let me quote a few from the Bible as samples. Everything that does not come from faith is sin (Rom 14:23); Anyone who knows the good he ought to do and does not do it, he commits sin (James 4:17); The schemes of folly are sin (Pro 24:9); All wrong doing is sin (1 John 5:17); Every one who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness (1John 3:4). When we introspect ourselves in God’s perspective of sin, we commit sin every day, every minute and have been committing through out our lives knowingly and unknowingly. Finally to sum up, we are born only in Sin. “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us (1John 1:8)”. When Adam and Eve ate the fruit forbidden by the God, they committed the first sin of disobedience and fell into it. Not only they fell into it, we, their off springs also inherited it automatically and genetically (Acts 17:28). Disobeying the Lord is a sin. As soon as Adam disobeyed the Lord and ate the forbidden fruit, what did he answer to the Lord when he was questioned? Without accepting the blame on him, he immediately shifted the
blame on Eve by telling that he did not eat it on his own but it was given to him by her. What did Eve say? It was the serpent that had deceived her. She put the blame and the onus of the crime on the serpent. There started the habit of blaming others for our mistakes and it was genetically transferred to us through blood. You give a toffee to a small baby and tell it to give it to its brother or sister; the baby will immediately pull its hand in total refusal. Who taught this tiny child the selfishness? It is in the blood. When the child is about four years old, you ask in a stern voice as to why it had broken the glassware, the child will come out with a lie. Who taught the child to tell the lie? It is in the blood. When we suffer with some unbearable pain, sickness, faced with some serious problem or insult, accident or loss, the first word to come out of our mouth is ‘what sin have I committed to earn this sufferings? Isn’t it?