You end up oblivious to the double-standard you live by, in both your perception of, and your dealings with, others you have concluded not of your number.You sure can be repeatedly dense :chuckle:
You end up oblivious to the double-standard you live by, in both your perception of, and your dealings with, others you have concluded not of your number.You sure can be repeatedly dense :chuckle:
After the Fall Adam could not pass on spiritual life to His descendants.
Please quit trolling the thread.
There's no substance to the assertion that sin was not passed down from Adam to Cain.
After the Fall Adam could not pass on spiritual life to His descendants. He was not a life-giving spirit but a "living soul" and could only pass on the life of the soul and body - psychological and physical life. (1 Corinthians 15:45)Jesus said flesh (biological life) gives rise only to biological life not spiritual life. That is why an entirely new spiritual birth was needed.
…5 Jesus answered “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water (natural birth) and the Spirit. 6 Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit. 7 Do not be amazed that I said, ‘You must be born again.’…(John 3:6)
If each individual is born with spiritual life then we are all born in a pre-fall state and each of us needs to fall separately. If this were so then some people could choose to remain in a spiritual state. These people could, if they so chose, continue to live a perfect and sinless life. In fact, since these special people are already alive spiritually there would be no need for them to be "born again." They would be like Jesus who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and had God as His Father. Do you know anyone else like this? If there were anyone like this they would not need a savior.
5 He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. (Titus 3:5 Berean Study Bible)
This is talking about the the new birth. Thayer says:
The "pristine state" of the soul would not be how we were in childhood but to the state we were in when God first made the soul. I have tried to point before that God does not want us to be like we were as children. Children have a simplicity of faith but they are also self-centered and ruled by the desires of their flesh and mind (which is a characteristic of the carnal mind). This internal disposition makes it necessary for us to train and discipline them externally. I assure you children will not behave like civilized human beings if you allow them follow their natural impulses. Just because they are not culpable does not mean that their actions and attitudes naturally express the image of God. Is this the template you imagine God wants to restore us to?
How can "sin," which is immaterial in nature, be passed down to one's descendants?
Then sin was also passed from Adam to Abel and Seth.There's no substance to the assertion that sin was not passed down from Adam to Cain.
How can "sin," which is immaterial in nature, be passed down to one's descendants?
Calling [MENTION=13955]glorydaz[/MENTION]
More dots???
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Romans 5:14 KJV
(14) Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
1 John 5:17 KJV
(17) All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
Adam's nakedness needed covering, but it was not a sin that brought him the death sentence.
How can "sin," which is immaterial in nature, be passed down to one's descendants?
Then sin was also passed from Adam to Abel and Seth.
Jerry and the boys here have got a lot of errors and this is a monumental one. They like to claim kjv only...
The corrupted human nature was passed on through procreation, and all men sin thereafter.
It is impossible to corrupt things which are already corrupt!
People corrupt themselves:
"And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves" (Ex.32:7).
It is impossible to corrupt things which are already corrupt!
Imputation.
There is the imputation of Adam's sin and there is the imputation of Messiah's righteousness. The imputation of sin and death were brought into the world by one man: Adam. But because God soooooo loved the world God has offered life and grace to any who will accept His free gift of imputed righteousness.
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Calling [MENTION=13955]glorydaz[/MENTION]
More dots???
:think:
Romans 5:14 KJV
(14) Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
1 John 5:17 KJV
(17) All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
Adam's nakedness needed covering, but it was not a sin that brought him the death sentence.
People corrupt themselves:
"And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves" (Ex.32:7).
It is impossible to corrupt things which are already corrupt!
It is passed down through the heart and by heart I don't mean the physical blood pump. The heart, symbolically, as it is mostly referred to in scripture, is the centre or throne of the will. The will is our mental attributes.
Hence, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it"?
When someone insists that they have given their heart to Jesus I ask what they mean by heart. They haven't got a clue. They just repeat something parrot fashion.