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Re: Lesson #6 - Expounding the FAITH
[Re: Mountain Man]
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08/18/10 10:58 AM
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Are people guilty of something even if they never indulge it? If so, what are they guilty of? They are guilty of selfishness, for they have selfish inclinations. The problem is not just in acting selfishly, but in being selfish, whether one is aware of this or not. What about Adam and Eve? Were they guilty of something because they possessed the potential to sin? They weren't selfish, there was nothing wrong at the core of their being.
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Re: Lesson #6 - Expounding the FAITH
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08/19/10 07:12 PM
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That's because my position is that we are born with a character (just like Adam was created with a character), and I see no difference between inherited sinful traits of character and cultivated sinful traits of character.
There is a wide field of usefulness before all who will work for the Master in caring for these children and youth who have been deprived of the watchful guidance of parents and the subduing influence of a Christian home. Many of them have inherited evil traits of character; and if left to grow up in ignorance, they will drift into associations that lead to vice and crime. These unpromising children need to be placed in a position favorable for the formation of a right character, that they may become children of God. {AH 167.3}
When a child reveals the wrong traits which it has inherited from its parents, shall they storm over this reproduction of their own defects?--No, no! Let parents keep a careful watch over themselves, guarding against all coarseness and roughness, lest these defects be seen once more in their children. {ST, September 25, 1901 par. 16}
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