"And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." Genesis 1:31
"This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that GOD CREATED MAN, IN THE LIKENESS OF GOD made he him.. And ADAM... BEGOT A SON IN HIS OWN LIKENESS, after his image; and called his name Seth." Genesis 5:1, 3
If you want to see the nature of man at creation, then, look at Adam before the fall. What you see in man after the fall is a corrupted version of the original creation. This corrupted version is spread by birth (Genesis 5:1-3). In a manner of speaking, it can be said that there is one creation (Genesis 1:26-27), and in that one creation was the seed for the sustenance of the original creation, however, when that original creation sinned, the seed in him became corrupted and could only bring forth what is corrupt and broken.
There was nothing impure in the original creation of God made in His image, however, this did not mean that this perfect creature made in the image of God could not be corrupted. It became corrupted when it sinned, and this corruption was passed on to all the race through the process of birth. So, what resulted from birth did not represent the original form of God's creation, which was perfect.
When, therefore, a person with a flawed personality says that he was created that way, he is mistaking the way he was born for the way he was created. God did not create a flawed and broken race, He created a perfect race that became contaminated and broken when Adam, its progenitor sinned. It will, therefore, be wrong to ascribe to God the corruption that came about as a result of sin. Sadly, this is what people do when they say that their broken condition is how they were created by God. After God created man, He looked and saw that he was very good, and this is the mark of everything that God created.
So,
you see, we are sinners not because we were created sinners, but we are
sinners because we were born in sin. This is a truth David, in Psalm
51:5, aptly captured when he said that he was brought forth in iniquity,
and that his mother conceived him in sin. The next time you hear any
person say that his broken condition, no matter what it may be, is how
God made him, let such a person know that the way he was born is not the
way that he was created, and that his broken condition is not a defect
of creation, but birth.
Toni
