So I had a girl tell me in response to WLC on how sin is passed on (original sin) that because the WLC uses the words 'natural generation' that means that sin is passed by sex. But since Christ wasn't conceived by sex 'not by ordinary generation' then technically if no one had sex anymore sin would be destroyed.

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Andrew
Husband to Dena
Candidate of the MVP in the PCA
MDiv graduate from Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, MS
Pastor (elect) of Tchula Presbyterian Church, Tchula, MS

"What do you think about when you are not thinking about anything else? This is what you worship!"

That's quite a big leap. I guess, if God chose to wipe out humanity then sin would indeed then be destroyed.

EDIT: Also, I'd like to see the church tell the world "Ok, now guys, stop having sex! If there is no more sex, there won't be any more sin!"

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Vaughan
BTh Student, Sydney Missionary Bible College
Naremburn Cammeray Anglican Church
Sydney, Australia
The Ransomed

Yeah sex is powerful and mishandled by both the world and the church. It is not dirty it is wonderful and binding in its context but the world misuses it like all of God's glorious gifts and forsakes it's true intent and covenantal purpose the church in turn has been reactionary and flushed in the face when dealing with marital intimacy instead of better establishing it as just that, marital intimacy, a gift for married people.

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Travis Speegle
Redeemer Presbyterian, PCA (Waco, Tx)
Pacific Cross Roads, PCA (Los Angeles, CA)


"When it comes to trustworthy theologians one can usually honor the rule of thumb that the deader the better."-Dr. John Hannah, DTS (of all places)

No more sex spells the end of the human race, never mind sin. Would the apostle command couples to sin (1.Cor.7:3)?

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Independent Reformed Baptist Church (NE England, nr. Durham)

All one needs to ask is: "What happened to the Shakers?"

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~James Helbert~, Wytheville, VA
Providence Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCUS
TheBibleAlone.com / The Edinburgh Inn
"Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?” - Zechariah 3:2

So would IVF fall under "natural generation"?

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Scott Roper
Member, Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA): "A bunch of hippie Calvinists"
Winston-Salem, NC

Good point!

I deleted my post because I realised afterwards that the question was rhetorical.

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Yours sincerely,


"Illum oportet crescere me autem minui."

Who are the Shakers?

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Davidius
Husband of Emilia
Member: First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Durham (RPCNA) - Durham, NC
Student: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, German Literature and Classics

This may explain the old adage about Baptists being Methodists with shoes, and Presbyterians being Baptists who can read. To round out the adage, Lutherans might qualify as Presbyterians who drink to excess, and Episcopalians as Lutherans who know when to say when. - D.G. Hart

Exactly.

Q. 26. How is original sin conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity?
A. Original sin is conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity by natural generation, so as all that proceed from them in that way are conceived and born in sin.


So does natural generation mean sex or conception?

Conception. Nothing is created by the sexual act alone.

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Kevin Rogers
Mount Zion ARP
Moncton NB

that's what i was thinking.

This is the perfect set-up for some snappy comeback but I will allow Bawb the honor...

Oh, you beat me to it!

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Dan Pemberton
Vacaville, CA

Member, First Baptist Church San Luis Obispo
Formerly ABUSA (We left, so I guess that makes us American Baptists Unleashed!)