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Originally Posted by solifide  I'm still not sure what it means to not sin like the transgression of Adam, as mentioned in verse 14. Also, are you saying that there are two types of sin that condemn us, one from the womb and one from the law? These are just clarifications really, you guys have done admirably handling this. |
You have the essential thing: Before we do anything ourselves, even the first willful sin as a little baby, we are condemned to hell. We will have none of this patronizing nonsense about "age of accountability," etc. Death is a
penalty for sin, sin that we are both conceived and born in, and which we require the love and mercy of God personally displayed toward us in Christ, into whom we are given faith to believe. Age is immaterial.
We are guilty before existence by the imputation of Adam's first sin, his representative, federal act. Condemned in Adam. We are guilty, second, in our embryonic state, and continually as we come to full development, due to the sinful corruption of our whole nature. We are
born sinners, "going astray from the womb." Thus ALL of our motions are by nature truly and properly SIN. So, even our repentance must be repented of.
And third, we are guilty of all the willful violations of God's holy and perfect requirements. Ignorance of the law is no excuse--not that it matters, we are already guilty of violating the laws we most clearly recognize. Sin is lawlessness.
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