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Are Men Born Sinners

The Myth of Original Sin
By Alfred T. Overstreet

Softcover, 275 pages
Price: $19.95 + $3.50 Shipping & Handling

ISBN 10: 0964483203
ISBN 13: 978-0964483200
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Summary

As the serpent deceived Eve, even so, "that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan" (Revelation 12:9) continues to teach lies and deceive men.

The big lie of the Devil is the lie that God created men with a sinful nature; that they are born condemned and under the wrath and curse of God for the sin of Adam; and that because their very nature is sinful it is impossible for them to obey God and live without sin. The book Are Men Born Sinners shows that this doctrine is false.

This book shows who started the idea of original sin, its awful slander on God's character, and its total inconsistency and opposition to the Bible and all its fundamental teachings.

Every Christian should read this book!

Table of Contents

  • Part One: Examining the Doctrine of Original Sin
    • Are Men Born Sinners?
    • Proof-texts used to support the doctrine of original sin
    • The origin and history of the doctrine of original sin
    • The Bible doctrine of sin
  • Part Two: Answering the Christian's Objections
    • Objections answered
    • How a false doctrine could persist so long
  • Part Three: Implications of a False Doctrine
    • Thirteen reasons why the doctrine of original sin is false
  • Part Four: Insurmountable Problems of a False Doctrine
    • The great problem of original sin
    • Original sin makes God inconsistent and imperfect
    • Jesus was a man
    • Can Christians live without sin
    • God hates false doctrine
  • Appendices
    • The nature and attributes of sin
    • The "age of accountability"
    • The rational moral nature of man
    • The Bible and man's rational moral nature
    • Temptation: the occasion of all sin
    • The folly of taking texts out of context
    • Bible texts can be used to prove lies
  • Anthology
    • Excerpts from Charles G. Finney's Sermons on Gospel Themes
    • Excerpts from Charles G. Finney's An Autobiography
    • Excerpts from Charles G. Finney's Lectures on Systematic Theology
    • Excerpts from Henry C. Sheldon's System of Christian Doctrine
    • Excerpts from Moses Stuart's Commentary on Romans
    • Excerpts from Albert Barns' Notes on the Epistle to the Romans

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About the Author

Alfred Tom Overstreet was saved at the age of 23 in an Assembly of God Church in the saw mill/logging community of Hayfork, California. Soon after he was converted God filled him with the Holy Ghost and called him to preach. He then attended Bethany Bible College where he studied theology and graduated with a B.A. in English Bible. He met his wife, Deanna, in college and they were married one year later when she graduated. While studying at Bethany Bible College he came across a copy of Finney's Lectures on Systematic Theology and through it realized that the doctrine of original sin was false. The author's book Are Men Born Sinners? has its roots in his reading of Finney's Lectures on Systematic Theology.

Tom and his wife served eight years as missionaries in Mexico, where they established a mother church in Guadalajara, Jalisco; and also helped establish a small church in the village of Camichines, Jalisco. He had little success in reaching souls for Christ in the small church he pastored in the city of Guadalajara. It was later, when he went to the state of Vera Cruz, and preached in open air campaigns and tent meetings, that he saw the Lord bless his ministry. God gave the increase to the ministry, and the converts in turn went out and preached the gospel. Today there are at least five churches that have grown from those first open air campaigns.

The Overstreets returned to the United States where they both taught elementary school. Deanna taught 13 years in an Assembly of God Christian School, and Tom taught five years in public education, most of those years as a Biligual Resource Teacher at Roosevelt Elementary School in Compton, California. Tom and Deanna have two children and six grand children.

Tom now devotes his time to writing on the great Christian doctrines of the Bible--those doctrines of the Bible that promote faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and Christian obedience and holiness. In his most recent visit to Mexico, he taught a three month course on theology and hermeneutics in a Bible school for ministers. He is an evangelist and teacher and is available to preach wherever he is called.