The Sin Nature

Did Adam and Eve have sin nature in them? What made them ignore God’s warning and listen to Satan instead?

Q. Did Adam and Eve have sin nature in them? What made them ignore God’s warning and listen to Satan instead?

A. Adam and Eve were created with agency, the freedom to make choices for themselves, but not a sin nature. The sin nature came into the human gene pool as a result of their fall. The sin nature is not something that makes it possible for us to sin. It’s something that makes it impossible for us not to. All it takes to commit a sin is the freedom to make our own choices.

When God created Adam and Eve He gave them that freedom. Satan took advantage of that and persuaded them to disobey God’s direct command and eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.