Quote Originally Posted by gandrw View Post
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying here. Do you believe that God created us with sin already a part of our nature. And not that sin began with the act of disobedience in eating the apple. At least in mankind. Or am I miss interpreting what you meant.

I believe God created us in his image like scripture says and I believe God is without fault or sin he is Prefect. So if he created us in his image why would he put sin in our nature? I believe he gave us free will to fallow him. because that gives him joy to have his creation chose to love and worship him as there creator. That free will allowed Eve to make the dissuasion to disobey and sin when tempted by the snake who I believe was Satan in the form of a snake. But I do not believe there was sin in Adam and Eve till that point.

He created us with a full range of emotions.

He is full of emotion. Old Testament scripture is full of examples of negative emotion on the part of Him. Anger. Spitefulness. Revenge. Jealousy, etc.

The story of Cain and Abel shows us the first example of jealousy, and yet no mention of Satan being behind it. It was entirely generated from within.

So here we are, 6000 years later having the same set of emotions. So no, I do not believe that the occurence of these emotions is a temptation on the part of Satan. I feel that some are just more cognizant of the emotion than others and why it is wrong.