DO BABIES SIN?

Musick-al note # 233

Does the Bible teach that babies have no sin when it also says that all have sinned? The Bible does say that there is none righteous, no not one. Striving to make these statements conflict is a misunderstanding of what our Lord Jesus Christ taught about babies and about sin. We are born with an ABILITY or TENDENCY to sin, for we want our own way. Adam was the same way (that is, he had both the ability and tendency to sin) BEFORE he sinned, so it is not a part of any "fallen nature" which we are presumed to inherit from Adam. But the Bible teaches that we do not (in fact, cannot) inherit Adam's sin, or the sin of any other, for "Sin is a transgression of the law" (1 John 3:4). Also, knowing to do good and not doing it is sin (James…