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Babies Are Not Born Sinners!
Vol. 21, No. 3 — Mar 2019
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There are many in the religious world today who believe that babies are sinners from their birth (e.g., the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church [Church of England]). Roman Catholics and Anglicans sprinkle little babies for this belief (i.e., they call it baptism) to protect them, but of course it is not baptism. In addition to believing that babies are born in sin, there are those in the religious world who even teach this as Scripture. What does the Bible have to say about babies—about the innocent—for it is man’s only source of authority for religious practices. “And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done” (Genesis 8:21). Note whether man’s heart is evil from his birth! Is that what Moses wrote? No! He said, “…Man’s heart is evil from his YOUTH…”—from his youth and not from his birth. Again, this time from the pen of Jeremiah the prophet we see the same truth. “We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God” (Jeremiah 3:25). Jeremiah concurred with what Moses wrote, also guided by divine inspiration, as were all the writers of the Bible. One of the favorite verses