Johann, you're welcome. It's important to discuss truth in a civil way - truth can afford it. Seems to me we are guilty of the sins we ourselves commit - not the ones our parents or ancestors commit. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him." Ezekiel 18:20. Infants sin because they are born that way. They cannot not sin. They must experience rebirth, abide in Jesus, partake of the divine nature, and then they can imitate Jesus' example of "righteousness and true holiness". Steps to Christ describes it very nicely.

But here they are powerless.

Are you kidding, asygo? Why?

Isn't that kind of double dealing by a "righteous" God?

DNA?

Recently I read that most of the food we eat is poisoned because the grain used most frequently has been manipulated to shorten the straw. So now I get unmanipulated breakfast cereal and bread. It is more expensive, but I feel the difference.

Biblical history indicates that the human lifespan and hight have both been shortened. Is there any kind of similarity or comparison?

Then there is also the question if Jesus was born with similar DNA to ours?

Not sure what you mean, pastor. Please explain. Thank you.

Powerless to change the heart, powerless to save, that's for sure.


However, the following insight is interesting:

It looks like MM took the words right out of my mouth, or more literally, my fingers.

Will power and education have their sphere, but that sphere does not include salvation. Man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart.

Hebrews 2:16-18
16 For truly he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
17 Why in all things it behooved him to be made like to his brothers, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.

Jesus was "made like" his brothers. Yes, Jesus had similar DNA.

Yes, genetic manipulation leads to all kinds of problems. Google "BT toxin" and GMO and see the number of hits you find. EGW tells us that weeds are the result of "Satan's ingenious methods of amalgamation", that is genetic engineering.

We have had a tremendous fall off in life span and probably size. Two things come into play, genetics and epigenetics. Epigenetics have to do with genetic switching, turning on and off and moderating gene expression. Epigenetics can be changed, and we by our lifestyle change our epigenetic profile. Epigenetics can also turn on and off bad genes. The food we eat does affect our epigenetic profile, in a number of ways. Food also can expose us to mobile genetic elements which we can incorporate into our genomes via lateral gene transfer. Before the flood, the ages of the people were all fairly similar and long, living 900+ years. At the time of the flood, did the diet change? Yes it did!

Here is an interesting fact - we always speak about "the fall". But EGW says that we have had a series of "falls" each worse that the prior. And this has lead to the deterioration of the race. It is in the DNA.

It seems partaking of the divine nature enables people to resist their DNA and imitate Jesus' godly traits of character.