Original Sin is the Biggest Deception in the Church Today

Written by Mike DeSario

Edited by Nick Dreyer

Nowhere in the pages of scripture, does God say that mankind is born with some kind of moral depravity or ‘inbred sin’ (as the doctrine of original sin proclaims- learn more on its history here). moral depravity or ‘inbred sin.’  There are a few mistranslated passages that say the we have a ‘sin nature’ however (Romans 7:13-24). This debate essentially is the difference between mankind having the ability to obey God or not.  Did God really curse our flesh when He removed Adam and Eve from the Garden (Genesis 3:1-24)? We are either born with a propensity to wander away from God or we choose to sin based on our natural tendencies desires given over to lust in a fallen world. Ultimately, this doctrine has been instituted by the establishment church system as an excuse to continue to sin and be saved in our sins.  What would the church attendance be like if they actually taught that people had to repent of their sinful ways and obey God’s commands as instructed in scripture?

Who’s Really at Fault for Mankind’s Vile Condition?

Either God, who fearfully and wonderfully made them (Psalm 139:14), is at fault, or man himself is the issue endorsing the fallacy of human depravity for almost two-thousand years; pounding it into their minds night and day, month after month, year after year, 24/7 without ceasing, that they were nothing but a pack of morally depraved, wretched wrecks who couldn’t do anything right in the sight of God if they tried! I’d say it’s the inevitable outcome of convincing people to follow their base instincts instead of seeking after God, especially when it comes to the Church which was intended to be the Salt and Light of the earth and a moral compass to mankind guiding him into righteousness. From this premise, the Doctrine of Moral Depravity in man is an overwhelming disgrace and scourge on humankind derived from the pits of Hell itself.

Perhaps if they had been told, instead, that 1) there is inherent goodness remaining in man’s nature after all and 2) the ability to do what is right is within their moral capacity to perform and 3) they stand fully responsible before GOD to obey what He said, maybe things would be different in our world. At least people would fear God instead of mocking Him in utter hypocrisy professing to be wise unto salvation. If the real Gospel had been preached worldwide for the last 500 years, maybe the missionaries and other charitable outreaches would be sacrificing their lives for a purpose instead of for nothing (Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 25:12-13; Luke 13:23-27). People die in the Name of Christianity without a clue they are part of the mysterious Babylon woman on the Scarlet-Beast corrupted System of religion committing adultery with the world. What a waste to die for a system that perpetuates the lie of human depravity and infects untold more cultures with this poison.

A Clear Explanation of Original Sin

This entire issue is explained in Romans 1 and 2. Man becomes ‘depraved through a progression of degeneration giving himself over to a reprobate mind. He is not born ‘depraved,’ but fully endowed with a moral conscience that can fully realize the existence of God in creation, seeking Him out to do what is right. If Paul believed, or taught (as the phony pundits claim), moral depravity, WHY does he reveal this progression by which man becomes morally depraved and debased in his mind?

Rather, as the passage says, he becomes wise in his own understanding and indulges his futile thoughts rejecting this revelation and then follows after his foolish and darkened heart. At this point he creates an Image of god after his own likeness, manipulative, arbitrary and tolerant of wrongdoing; then, exchanging the truth of God for a lie he worships and serves this image and is given over to his lustful passions and desires he indulged over time (Nature meaning: PHYSIS, the principle of growth) and refuses to crucify these lustful indulgences by following the example of Christ. This is the general condition of the most professing Christians in the world today regardless of what they may be doing toward charitable deeds. After all, Jesus did say many will confess to doing miracles in His name but He will say He did not know them (Matt 7:22-23). I wonder why Jesus said in this passage, “Away from me, you evildoers!”. Underneath, they are full of duplicity and evil, surmising always and standing in favor of sin and telling others it’s normal.

Romans 2:14 says that the Gentiles (heathen, pagan nations) who ‘have not the law’ do, by Nature the things contained in the law! If the Nature of man is morally depraved at birth, HOW could it be said they DO what is right by Nature? The Church has no answer to this kind of reasoning because it’s more convenient for them to believe they can’t obey God rather than obey Him and becoming the moral example the world is looking for.

The consequence of this style of preaching is that many people who buy into it advance into extreme levels of re-probation and debase themselves in reversals of nature where any kind of perversion is commonplace. They are then given up in their condition as they indulge their fancies in every kind of filth imaginable and even encourage it in others by their unspoken compliance of wrongdoing. This is the Reprobate mind the Bible speaks of as given over to self-indulgence and it exactly describes the present state of people who fall prey to the depravity lie and learn to practice their sins with impunity. The ‘Christian System‘ propagates it, ever-worsening the situation and sinking man lower into the mire of his decadence without consequence.

Dissecting Scripture

God made Man upright but ‘he sought out many schemes’ (Ecclesiastes 7:29)! David assured us that we were fearfully and wonderfully made and that children were a heritage from the Lord. Does an isolated passage quoted ten-million times by the deceived Pundits undo all of this?

David was ‘conceived‘ in sin (Psalm 51:5). There’s no one on earth Just or who does not sin (Ecclesiastes 7:20, Romans 3:23).

HAVE you ever taken the time and effort to understand WHY these things were said? Or is it enough that they ‘invalidate‘ everything the Bible says even to the point of contradicting itself? They will go to any extreme to retain a fallacy that excuses you from your responsibility to do what is right in the sight of God. HOW could the Bible writers say ten thousand times you are responsible for what you DO and learn by ‘Progression‘ to be a reprobate rather than obey God and then turn around and absolve everyone from this responsibility because they are ‘Born depraved?

THINK for a change!!! They weren’t assigning all mankind to depravity but ILLUSTRATING the dreadful consequences of committing SIN!

MOST of Scripture is a Comparison between good and evil, right and wrong. All throughout the Psalms and Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and elsewhere, the vivid CONTRAST between righteousness and wickedness is set before our eyes, accompanied by the warning to CHOOSE LIFE! Obedience unto righteousness or sin unto death! BUT the so-called Christians tell the world you CAN’T make a right choice or even obey God unless He does it for you. The best you can hope for is to live out your ‘wretched life hoping Christ has you covered while you sit in the Churches wondering why no one is motivated to be an example to others.

The end result is a lack in moral compass to point at wrongdoing from the church and society. Instead, church and culture emulate one another in new levels of re-probation. The Preachers are more interested in ‘effectiveness’ than in Righteousness. While the message of the Bible is Righteousness, Self-control, and the Judgment to come, their message is ‘you can sin and not die’ (Acts 24:25).

Death From the Pulpit

Our present generation is perishing because of the claptrap coming out of the pulpits; it lacks both substance and clarity in the application of truth on the minds of men. How will people understand the imperative of duty toward God when the preachers keep giving them an alternative to obedience? Personal responsibility is preempted by inbred moral depravity (a corrupted nature) WHO will be motivated to make the right choice when they are told its already been made for them by ‘receiving‘ Jesus!

In the Church system, sin is what you are by birth, not what you do by choice. The Gospel of Jesus Christ had to be entirely redefined to accommodate this fallacy and it is nearly impossible to find a minister not preaching the Gospel from this flawed premise. Those who fall prey to this system do not have a proper concept of sin. They think sin isn’t the issue to God because Jesus took care of it on the Cross and it no longer holds them accountable. There’s no imperative to produce deeds worthy of repentance or forsake even their vilest of sins, just ‘believe‘ they are poor, helpless wretches saved-by-grace and God has a wonderful plan for their lives.

Sin is What We Do, Sin is Not What We Are!

Having the right concept of sin is essential to preaching the Gospel of repentance and faith proven by deeds. The multiple layers of deceptions so pervasive in the professed Christian establishment today have rendered genuine salvation from the corruption of sin impossible. Instead of escaping the corruption that is in the world through lust, people are deceived into thinking they can be justified in their sins. Thus, under their false sense of assurance, professing Christians THINK sin is what they are NOT what they DO.

This makes one’s ability to choose between good and evil actions as a non-factor in the outcome of salvation because all sin is the same, everything you do is sin and even temptation is sin. This paralyzes the conscience into a state of insensitivity toward wrongdoing. The human mind loses its natural ability to accuse itself when temptation arises so the ‘way of escape‘ (1 Corinthians 10:13) is not an option and sin then defiles the soul (Hebrews 12:15).

All of this is because Bible pundits have mystified sin as something that dwells or lurks within the flesh. But the Bible is crystal clear that SIN is a result of the misuse of your free will succumbing to temptation.

James Explains

As James explains; ‘by his OWN DESIRES’ a person is drawn away and enticed. The desire unites with the will and the result is sin. Freedom of CHOICE is in play during the entire process. Sin becomes Transgression of the law (1 John 3:4) when you indulge the passions and desires of your flesh. Your flesh is not ‘corrupt,’ it’s always your willful desire acting out in wrongdoing. Sin is NOT inevitable to human nature because of something ‘lurking in you’. It’s your natural desires given over to self-indulgence by choice, you ‘corrupt yourself’ descending into an addiction that makes you a ‘Slave to sin‘ (Romans 6:16).

The scripture mentioning ‘Whoever shall keep the whole law, but yet stumble in one point is guilty of all (James 2:10) is NOT telling us that ALL SINS are the same, as all the pastors will tell you. Rather, James is expressing the Biblical definition of transgression. If you violate the commandment against adultery, but not the one against murder, are you NOT a ‘Transgressor’ of the Law (1 John 1:4)?

DO you see the logic!? The same would be true if you robbed a bank, but you didn’t steal a car, would not the LAW convict you as a transgressor of the entire system of law!? James is NOT giving mankind a license to pass off their wrong doings as ‘all the same,’ he is directing them to practice the PERFECT Law of Liberty, which is FAITH WORKING BY LOVE, thereby upholding the entirety of the law (Romans 3:31, 13:10, Matthew 22:37-40)!

Are Christians Today Pharisees?

Professed Christians today are the perfect example of a Pharisee; clean on the outside but defiled within. They take great pride in their ‘form’ of godliness but lack any inkling of a godly life. They sin daily in thought, word, and deed because they are inclined to constantly submit to the passions and desires of their flesh. It’s the ‘Nature of growth‘ (Physis, mentioned in Ephesians 2:3) that produces a habit of sin, NOT something inbred into all humanity from birth. Church teachers will never understand this concept of ‘Growth‘ revealed in the Scriptures because they are blinded by their own indulgences and compelled to handle the Word of God deceitfully to their own ruin and the ruin of others.

It’s a self-inflicted mind conditioning that takes place over time as each succeeding generation foolishly accepts the premise of the one before it.

James says temptation is presented, the desire enticed, the idea conceived, the CHOICE is made. Thus, the wages of sin takes its inevitable toll on the human soul. The temptation itself is NOT sin. If that were true, Christ Himself would be guilty of sin. Hebrews 4:15 says, “He was in ALL POINTS tempted as We are, yet Without Sin!” If a person has an inappropriate thought running across their mind it DOES NOT prove he is desperately wicked or wretched within (as professed Christians have been taught).

It means he was created by God with the faculties of moral conscience and natural desires and inclinations. Thus, temptations come, and thoughts are derived from, our own natural affections and surrounding environment. They only become sin if we choose to indulge them. Our part is to make the conscience CHOICE NOT to present our members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin but as instruments of righteousness (Right actions) to GOD (Romans 6:13)! In that manner, sin will no longer have dominion over you (Roman 6:14). BUT if your free will ability has been rendered inoperative by the fallacy of original sin inbred, as a malady you cannot overcome, you will CONTINUOUSLY choose the path of least resistance to indulge the lust of your flesh—it’s a constant cycle of sin-repent, sin-repent.

This is why professing Christians incessantly equate minor infractions in conduct with committing vile sins of the flesh they should have ceased from doing in repentance. Since in their minds driving over the speed limit, or having a fleeting thought run across their mind, is the same as any other vile act, WHY would they be worried about being addicted to pornography, committing adultery occasionally, or a little drunkenness. God has forgiven them anyway, they need but ‘confess‘ it as another inevitable mistake and move on. After all, if they claim to have ‘no sin (in them) they lie and know not the truth!’

To Summarize Original Sin:

• They view sin as what they are not what they do.
• All men are sinners by birth and all sin is the same, including temptation.
• Sin is inevitable and no one can ever stop sinning, anyone who says they have is a liar!
• We are defected from birth (like a DNA defect) to sin, so why make any effort to change?

Unraveling this deception in the minds of those under it is impossible until they see the folly of their ways and make a determined effort to STOP sinning and Seek out God in real repentance. Many have been held captive by these lies for so long they are no longer capable of equating their ability to make the common choices of everyday life with putting forth an effort to OBEY God. It’s as though the natural functions of their brains have been disconnected from reality. It’s genuine captivity of the mind and soul and can only be broken when the human Will is released to ‘Rule over it!‘

This deception goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden, to the first lie Satan told Eve ‘You will not surely die’ (Genesis 3:4). Learn more on how the attack on our identity, on being the Image of God, was the starting place for the birthing of the doctrine of original sin.