by phos » February 21st, 2006, 2:39 am
First of all, Tony, what I'm trying to get across is that original sin, our sinful nature that we have before birth, makes us unacceptable to God. This is why a child may not be automatically saved.
Ephesians 2:3 - Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
Our state as children of wrath is part of our very nature. We possess our nature before birth, no? Meaning that it is part of who we are fundamentally? Than that means before birth we are sinners. It is not our first sin that makes us sinners, but our nature.
And what do you mean that God the Father did not turn His back on His Son?!? What about:
Matthew 27:46 - About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "ELI , ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?" that is, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?"
This is because Christ, bearing the sin of the world, was no longer one with His Father. This pain, of bearing our Sin and breaking fellowship with His Father, was the cup Jesus spoke of in the Garden of Gethsemane, not the physical pain of hanging on a cross. I was not making any assumptions.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
-C.S. Lewis