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Old 10-21-2008, 07:57 PM
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What did David means when he said "In sin did my mother concieve me". As far as I am aware, David's mother was not a harlot, adulteress or fornicator, so that can only mean that he had a sinful nature from conception. Of course, not knowing good and evil, he would not be accountable for it as a child, in the womb or out.
Agreed. More to the point, David refers to himself at conception -- not some pre-human mass of tissue:
Psalms 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
By using the words I and me David ascribed personhood to himself at conception.