Psalm 139:13-14 (ESV)
For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works…
Let’s look at another passage from the Psalms which, even though written by the same man, Catholics and Calvinists fail to use when seeking the harmony of God’s message.
- “you knitted me together” – In the famous words of the little boy, “God don’t make no junk!” If God knits us together in the womb, yet we are evil babies from the womb, at what point in the knitting process does God give us a soul tainted by the stain of “original sin”? One of the greatest blasphemies of this false doctrine is the necessary conclusion that God must be guilty of knitting us with sin.
- “I am fearfully and wonderfully made” – Q: Why would David believe he was born guilty of “original sin,” yet praise God for knitting him together and claim that he was a “wonderfully made” baby?
Note: It should also be pointed out that David, the same one who authored Psalm 51:5 and 58:3, once had a child who was indeed conceived in a sinful context. Yet David did not mourn the child as if inherited sin had condemned him as evil. David actually looked forward to going where his dead child had gone. Read 2 Samuel 12:14-23. Q: Why would David want to go where his child had gone if his child was evil?
Conclusion: The same man who wrote, “I was brought forth in iniquity,” also wrote, “I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Catholicism and Calvinism must be exposed for attempting to isolate one passage in order to prop up their false doctrine. Only through the harmony of the whole counsel of God can truth be fully seen.