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What sin does a newborn child commit that causes him/her to be born in a poor house?



      

Psalms 51:5

ESV - 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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Mini Paula Fether Supporter Lifelong student of the scriptures
None at all. Babies are innocent before God. Does anyone think that the children of the rich (and their rich parents) are the most moral people?

That Psalm was written as an outpouring of guilt and remorse, with characteristic Hebrew hyperbole, not a theological statement about somehow only blaming sin on the mother.

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Mini Tim Maas Supporter Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
To paraphrase S. Michael Houdmann (https://www.gotquestions.org/conceived-in-sin.html), God is not responsible for the foolishness of man. Neither is He responsible for greed, selfishness, hatred, pride, laziness, hoarding, cruelty, spite, callousness, or any other sin that contributes to poverty. There is no unrighteousness in God (Psalm 92:15). All people are -- and have been since Adam and Eve first sinned -- sinners from conception (Psalm 51:5; Romans 3:23), and "the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23). The tragedies of the world-especially preventable tragedies such as poverty and world hunger-are the result of sin (Romans 8:22).

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