Right now there is a lot of discussion about sin nature. This raises a question. Adam was created in the image of God. If sin nature is why men sin today then why did Adam sin?
Why did Adam sin
Discussion in 'General Baptist Discussions' started by freeatlast, Apr 5, 2011.
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My answer is that Adam was given a choice to obey or rebel. This is how love is determined. That is why I say that God desired to create human beings in His image that would love Him of their own free will. Otherwise it's not love. -
-- They may have been curious
-- They may not have understood the extent of the lie
-- They may have thought that the wisdom that came from knowing good from evil was a good thing
-- They may have thought that the serpent was an agent of God
-- They may have logically proposed that if this, then that, equaled a better life
-- They may have been conned Etc., etc., etc. All, or most may be true.
God harshly judged the enemy, and put into motion something that He told us later (progressive revelation in the Word) that was His plan from the before the foundation of the world, which indicates that though the free expression of will was allowed in Adam's case, the price was also mandated and unavoidable, to which God already had a plan in place that would ultimately redeem those who were now (corporately, as in, ALL future humanity) enslaved to sin. -
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I certainly agree that Adam had a choice, but we do also. Sin is never a given or to say we have to sin. No one can name me one sin they ever had to do. All sin is a choice. The problem is that everyone choses to follow sin instead of God. No one can claim that they sin because they have a sin nature unless we want to claim that Adam did not have a choice and was forced to sin.
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Romans 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. -
We are slaves to sin (before salvation) in that when we choose to sin, we are under the penalty of sin, which is death. But we still have a choice even as sinners bound for hell to choose Christ and receive salvation. We then are free from sin in that we will never suffer the penalty of it, which is eternal death. But we will still sin until we are changed from corruptible flesh to incorruptible. -
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it]. -
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Jhn 8:34 Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.
Rom 7:14-25 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. -
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It takes a free man to set free slaves! Hence, Christ, first true free man since Adam! Praise God for His Son, who infinite as God, had the ability to set us free. -
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Look at Romans 6:16
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Both yielding's are a choice. No one ever sins because they have to and no one ever lives righteously because they have to. Both are choices that is my point.
Tghe romans 7 passage that where it says " bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members" That law of sin is "death", not being forced to sin.
For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
No one has to sin. -
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