beloved57
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Isa 48:8
Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb
Now even though this scripture may be spoken of national Israel, it's a truth regarding all men by nature. We are sinful at birth from the stomach of our mother. We were as David cried PS 51:5
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Ps 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
So babies are born as unclean sinners deserving of death even though it is not manifested until they are more fully developed. However all the seeds of wickedness are there in the flesh in innocent latent form! Jesus said that which is born of the flesh is flesh and Paul said Rom 7:18
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
A newborn baby needs to be born again for heaven no less than a adult because Paul wrote 1 Cor 15:50
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Newborns are no more than flesh and blood.
Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb
Now even though this scripture may be spoken of national Israel, it's a truth regarding all men by nature. We are sinful at birth from the stomach of our mother. We were as David cried PS 51:5
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Ps 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
So babies are born as unclean sinners deserving of death even though it is not manifested until they are more fully developed. However all the seeds of wickedness are there in the flesh in innocent latent form! Jesus said that which is born of the flesh is flesh and Paul said Rom 7:18
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
A newborn baby needs to be born again for heaven no less than a adult because Paul wrote 1 Cor 15:50
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Newborns are no more than flesh and blood.