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No, Paul had already explained how men without the law become sinners in chapter 2.

Rom 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another; )

Notice Paul says FOR AS MANY AS HAVE SINNED without the law shall perish without the law. They do not perish because of Adam, they perish because they have sinned.

But you are correct, without law sin is not imputed (and this is why babies and little children are not sinners, because they cannot understand law). But Paul explains that all men have the law written on their hearts and are a law unto themselves. This is why men from Adam to Moses died, because they violated the law written on their hearts and conscience.

Notice that Paul does not mention Adam whatsoever here.

Now go back to Romans 5, is Paul speaking of ALL MEN in Romans 5:13-14?

NO, he is speaking only of men from Adam to Moses. So even if you argue that Paul is saying Adam made men sinners, it would only apply to men from Adam to Moses, not all men.

But that is not what Paul is saying, in fact he is saying that men from Adam to Moses DID NOT SIN LIKE ADAM. Now, if Adam's sin was imputed to them as you believe, they would be guilty of sinning EXACTLY LIKE ADAM.

You have fallen for Augustine's error.

 

No, they were sinners because they violated the law written on their hearts and conscience. Read the scriptures from Adam to Moses and you will see that men knew what sin was, even though there was no written law.

Romans 2 tells us that men PERISHED without the law, not because of Adam, but because they have sinned.

Rom 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

Paul didn't say these persons shall die because of Adam, he said they shall perish because they have sinned.

It is difficult to shake Augustine's error, but that is what it is.

 

Adam introduced death, judgment, and condemnation through sin. He was the leader. If you follow his example and sin, you also will come under judgment, be condemned, and spiritually die.

Jesus introduced life, justification, and righteousness through faith. If you believe like Jesus you will be imputed righteous.

God himself said the son shall not bear the iniquity of his father.

Eze 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

God said the soul that sins shall die, and that the son shall not bear his father's iniquity.

Do you believe this scripture?

 

Sin is something you DO, not something you are. Adam and Eve were not sinners until they sinned, then they were sinners.

2 Cor 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

God does not judge us for what we are, but for what we do.

Let me ask you a question, was Jesus a son of Adam?

 

A person is saved by trusting Jesus Christ as their Saviour.

Now answer my question, was Jesus a son of Adam?

 

The apostle paul who wrote this explains it further in 1 cor 15:22
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

All men are born in Adam .....by physical birth..and yet are spiritually dead.

Only those in Christ by Spiritual birth....are made alive....

all men are physically born in adam....but only the elect are spiritually born In Christ.

all men are in Adam, not all men are in Christ.

 

Jesus was the son of Adam, the scriptures prove it.

Rom 1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

Jesus was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and David was a son of Adam according to the flesh. So if you believe sin is inherited from Adam through the flesh, Jesus would be born with a sin nature.

Do you believe Jesus had a sin nature? I don't.

This is the problem with folks who believe the superstition that the sin nature is inherited from our father, they don't know the scriptures.

 

1 Corinthians 15:22 is the ONLY verse in all the Bible that says "in Adam" and says in Adam all DIE (FUTURE TENSE). You must be alive to die, so this actually refutes that we are born dead in sin.

Besides that, this verse is speaking of physical death only, the whole chapter of 1 Corinthians 15 concerns the resurrection of our physical bodies, not spiritual death.

You need to quit listening to error.

 

Jesus was not from the seed of Adam, but the seed of Mary. Mary was a direct descendant of David. Joseph did not impregnate Mary.

 

Correct.

[18]*Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.

(Matthew 1:18 ESV) (emphasis mine)

Jesus was the son of David in that He was born into the house of Joseph, and Joseph was a physical descendant of David. Jesus is not physically a descendant of David, just as He is not physically a descendant of Joseph. Had Jesus been conceived by Joseph, He would have been born in a state of sin.

 

Rom 1:3 shows that the seed of the man is passed through the mother. Jesus received the seed of David through Mary, thus Jesus also received the seed of Adam.

If Jesus was the seed of David through Mary, then Jesus was the seed of all of Mary's fathers going all the way back to Adam.

You can't get around it.