pinklight

Then, are you saying his subsequent sinful acts were NOT made out of choice? If not, then where did those later sinful acts come from? This is the problem many unbelievers (and believers) have who question why they are accountable for actions/sins they do if they were born with (didn’t choose to have) a sinful nature that forces or compels them beyond their abilities to do sinful things. We know God says we are each accountable for our own actions, so those who question this have an extremely valid point.

No, I’m not saying that when he continued as a rebel that he no longer was a rebel out of choice. He continued as a rebel (next he blamed God and his wife) because he chose to. And because he chose to continue as a rebel that is why I say he had a sin “nature”. In other words, it was who he was. It’s what defined him in a big way. So one thing that made him the person he was, was his choice in continuing to rebel. Does that make sense? Now because this is who Adam was, though a rebel by choice, and we are all born of Adam, that is how we end up with his “nature”. We sin because Adam wanted to and wanted to continue as a rebel. We are born like Adam because we are born from Adam who did not want to repent of his rebellion. Had he repented then it couldn’t be said that we are born like Adam or in Adam because then in that case rebellion wouldn’t be shown to be a part of his nature. And none of this goes to say that God made Adam then with a sin nature, since his initial rebellion and continuation in rebellion was all choice.