Dear Jeffrey,<\/p>\n
Can you, if you get the chance, please confirm my understanding from one of your sermons\u00a0Infant Baptism<\/a>? This is the first time ever, I’ve heard the thought we didn’t inherit sin, and I’m staggered by that. So there is no sin DNA? We don’t sin because we are from Adam and inherited this behavior? Rather, we sin because we choose to by virtue of God giving us free will? Is my understanding correct?<\/p>\n That makes sense if I’ve grasped this as the message. At times I’ve wondered about babies and the context of the “inherited sin – we all sin because we were born that way – it’s in our makeup because of Adam and Eve” mindset.<\/p>\n I adore your sermons, listening to them daily. I’m learning and evolving, paradigms are shifting as I now have a resource I trust that puts everything back into the scriptural intent and biblical source of truth context. The La Vista resources are really super-duper fabulous. I am working my way alphabetically through the sermons.<\/p>\n All the very best.<\/p>\n\t You have the right idea. For some articles on this topic, see:\u00a0Inherited Sins<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Free Will<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: Dear Jeffrey, Can you, if you get the chance, please confirm my understanding from one of your sermons\u00a0Infant Baptism? This is the first time ever, I’ve heard the thought we didn’t inherit sin, and I’m staggered by that. So there is no sin DNA? We don’t sin because we are from Adam and inherited…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[282,1196,179],"class_list":["post-50562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-infant-baptism","tag-inherited-sins","tag-sin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30347,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/infant-baptism-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":50562,"position":0},"title":"Infant Baptism (Hamilton)","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Download Audio Text: Romans 7:7-25 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Historians will admit that infant baptism did not appear in the church until the second or third century \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Roman Catholics \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThere is no express mention of the baptism of infants in the New Testament\u201d [Question Box, page 23]. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIt is difficult\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Audio"","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9369,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/if-there-is-no-inherited-sin-then-wouldnt-this-leave-a-possibility-for-a-person-to-live-a-sinless-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":50562,"position":1},"title":"If there is no inherited sin, then wouldn’t this leave a possibility for a person to live a sinless life?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I came across your article on infant baptism while doing a web search for Scriptures on the topic.\u00a0 In reading your article, I get the impression that your church does not believe in original sin?\u00a0 This seems to me like an astonishing view, as it would leave open at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":44060,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/i-liked-your-article-on-whether-sin-is-inherited-from-adam\/","url_meta":{"origin":50562,"position":2},"title":"I liked your article on whether sin is inherited from Adam","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Dear Minister, I liked your article on\u00a0whether sin is inherited from Adam. 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