steveh_131
Grandmaster
deal me in said:Everyone sins so everyone is condemned at birth. Creating me as a sinner and then demanding that I seek His forgiveness is a characteristic of a petty God. Yeah, I know, I know, I can't possibly understand Him so I shouldn't question. This is always going to be a circular argument?
It is circular to some extent, but I think it is important to recognize the component of free will. You choose to sin. You could have made the right choice, but you make the wrong ones. The fact that we all do it does not mean that we have to do it.
We are condemned by our own faulty choices, but that is fortunately not the end of the story and I think the events that follow prove that God is anything but petty.