I was reading something by Paul McCartney this week. (His two volume Lyrics). He was expressing his distaste for the Roman Catholic doctrine of original sin - the doctrine taught by Augustine and that is in the Bible - that we are all born sinful. For him it is too depressing a thought. He likes to think that we are not sinners (although throughout his book his bad language and his questionable ethics show he is). That is a massive misunderstanding. Yes it is a heavy truth that we are all born in sin but the great news is that God's grace can overcome it. As Paul puts it in Romans 5:20 where sin increased, grace increased all the more.
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