Why We Left Lutheranism--Inherited Damnation

die we take seriously God's command to "make disciples, by baptizing and teaching." God promises us that he makes us—children as well as adults—his own dear children through baptism. He works faith in our hearts, by creating and strengthening faith.

As for the question, is our sinful nature "fleshly or spiritual," if it were fleshly, there would be a problem with Jesus being born of the flesh. For then he would be sinful due to flesh. Ah, but he was "conceived by the Holy Spirit." It is by virtue that Jesus was born "true God and true man" that he was born under the Law to save us who live under the Law.

Obviously our sinful nature is neither from our fleshly or spiritual make-ups. Our bodies were declared "very good" by God at the close of Creation. Obviously the spirit from God is not sinful. In and of themselves these components aren't sinful.

The Greek that John uses in John 3:6 for flesh is sarx. This work denotes the whole gamut of man—not just the body, but the entire sinful man. This includes the soul with all its powers and activities. Basically that is how God described the state of mankind in Genesis 8:21. The psalmist asserts this sinfulness is present already at conception. Thus not only life but also our sinfulness begins at conception.

Original sin is a vital component in Christian theology. Go back to Romans 5. Read Romans 5 through. Notice that original sin ("by one man sin entered the world") is directly tied to our salvation! Because we are sinners by the action of one man, by the action (perfect life) and death (innocent) of one man we are made righteous! Basically, all are sinners in God's. We all deserve eternal death and spiritual death and physical death. But because Jesus died to pay for our sins, we now have eternal life in the blood of one man!

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts

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