But we were sinners before we committed a single act of sin because self-centeredness and rebellion are also sin. Sinful acts are merely the natural fruit on the sinful tree of human nature. No one of them does what is right, not a single one. No one is good except God alone. The Scriptures paint a very bleak picture of man since Adam and Eve brought the disease of sin into the human family.
Sin is a terminal disease.
The sin virus is more deadly than the AIDS virus. The AIDS virus can take your life, but the sin virus can cause you to lose the eternal life that God wants to give you. Someone must find a cure that will neutralize the effects of the sin virus in our lives. Someone must find a way to save us. It only takes a single sin to bring the death penalty upon us.