How does this teaching describe the nature of a newborn baby?
This teaching describes every newborn baby as coming into the world in a sweet, innocent little body with its five senses, yet carrying a sin-bent personality. Because all are sons of Adam, each baby is born in the same fallen place Adam was after he fell, needing God's intervention.
Les explains that the root problem is not what we do but who we are—sons of Adam. Every baby born into the world now is in the same place Adam was after he fell. They come in a sweet, innocent little body with its five senses, but lying with them is a personality, and it is a sin-bent personality. It can try to clean itself up, but until God does the things only God can do, it is all for nothing. He also notes that the soul or personality is invisible, yet real, like the mind, will, and emotions.