I come across this little book called The Doctrine of Endless Punishment, by a 19th century author named William Shedd, republished by a modern Baptist press, for the edification of religious students and for ammunition against the sin of universalism (according to the preface) and I came across this passage:
I am particularly struck by the highlighted sentence, since it makes clear that it is not what you do, but what you are, that is sinful. By expert reverse logic it is proved that to be born is to have sinned freely. NOthing new here, I suppose, but it's rare to see the **** packed so compactly into the crock.
Quote:
Adopting the Augustino-Calvinistic statement of this fall, it can then be said that infants like all others of the human family, freely and responsibly "sinned in Adam, and fell with him, in his first transgression"...This is no more impossible, and no more of a mystery, in the case of infants, than of adults. If it be conceded that the whole race apostatized in Adam, infants are righteously exposed to the punishment of sin, and have no claim upon the Divine mercy. The sin which brings condemnation upon them is original sin, and not actual transgressions. But original sin is the sinful inclination of the will. An infant has a rational soul; this soul has a will; this will is wrongly inclined; and inclination is self-determined and punishable. If sinful inclination in an adult needs to be expiated by the atoning blood of Christ, so does sinful inclination in an infant. ......etc. etc. |
I am particularly struck by the highlighted sentence, since it makes clear that it is not what you do, but what you are, that is sinful. By expert reverse logic it is proved that to be born is to have sinned freely. NOthing new here, I suppose, but it's rare to see the **** packed so compactly into the crock.
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