A.B. Melchizedek
2 min readMay 28, 2024

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Well, Islam teaches you that doesn't it?

Narrated Abu Huraira:

"Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Adam and Moses argued with each other. Moses said to Adam. 'You are Adam whose mistake expelled you from Paradise.' Adam said to him, 'You are Moses whom Allah selected as His Messenger and as the one to whom He spoke directly; yet you blame me for a thing which had already been written in my fate before my creation?"' Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said twice, "So, Adam overpowered Moses."

(Sahih Bukhari 3409)

"Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) having said:

By Him in Whose Hand is my life, if you were not to commit sin, Allah would sweep you out of existence and He would replace (you by) those people who would commit sin and seek forgiveness from Allah, and He would have pardoned them."

(Sahih Muslim 2749)

And again,

"Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying:

Verily Allah has fixed the very portion of adultery which a man will indulge in, and which he of necessity must commit..."

(Sahih Muslim 2657b)

In Islam Allah ordains the sins you commit and you have no choice but to commit them.

In Christianity, humans are not born to be evil. God created humanity perfect but gave them free will. But free will includes freedom to disobey as well so Adam disobeys God and becomes guilty of rebellion thus ushering sin in to the world.

Every man born of Adam is a partaker of that sin nature which Adam acquired by his disobedience and rebellion. So the correct way to phrase it is that people are "born in sin", not that people are "born to be evil". People can do good things but it doesn't change the fact they have a sinful nature..the solution?

Jesus Christ, who was born of a virgin has no link or connection with Adam and as such is without the sin nature inherent in Adam dies for the sin of the world and resurrects free from the sin He died for. As a result people who put their faith in Jesus Christ can now be "born again" as it says in John 3:3-8. Just as in a natural birth people are born in sin in Adam, they can now be spiritually born righteous in Jesus Christ.

In conclusion, nowhere does Christianity say we are born to be evil, it is Islam that teaches that. In fact as the Hadith above says, if there was a world without sin, Allah would destroy it and replace it with a world with sin so that people can ask for forgiveness..

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A.B. Melchizedek
A.B. Melchizedek

Written by A.B. Melchizedek

Crusader waging offensive war on ideas that exalt themselves against the knowledge of Christ (particularly Islam) & defending the logic of the Christian faith.

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