7 Aug 2012
I John 1:10
I John 1:10: “If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.”
The Bible is very clear about this: all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. (Despite what Catholics will tell you, this includes Mary, the mother of Jesus.) We are all born with a sin nature. We are not basically good people; the Bible teaches us that we are basically evil people. We are all dead in our trespasses and sins. All of us have sinned. There is no getting around this.
The only one who never sinned was Jesus, and that was because He was not just a man – He was the God-Man, the incarnate Son of God. That is why the virgin birth is so critical: it allowed Jesus to be born without inheriting the sin of Adam. If there was no virgin birth then Jesus was born in sins and died in sins. If the virgin birth did not happen then salvation is impossible and we are all damned to Hell with no hope. The virgin birth is not an optional doctrine; it is absolutely essential. Christianity is impossible without it.