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1 | Do babies go to heaven or hell? | Gen 5:24 | mark d seyler | 154024 | ||
Searcher, I thought you were done discussing this with me :-) To impute is "to charge to the account of", to "give credit for". As the redeemed, our sin is imputed to Christ, God counts our sin as having been committed by Jesus. We receive Jesus' imputed righteousness. God credits us for the perfect life that Jesus lived, as if we had lived it. Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: Adam started it, and we all continue ourselves to sin. Even babies are self-centered, and will steal, and defy authority. Sin kills. Even babies may die. Rom 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Before the Law was given through Moses, mankind sinned, and died, but that sin was not counted against the sinner, because God has decreed that He will not count that sin against those to whom He had not specified obedience to a certain command. Sin is not imputed when there is no law. Rom 5:14 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. Even though the only law that God had given was to not eat of the tree in the center of the garden, and no one but Adam and Eve had eaten of that tree, still people died, because sin kills. But that sin was not counted against them, because in is not imputed when there is not law. I don't know what I can add to this. If you want more information, you might try the link Kalos posted. Love in Christ, Mark |
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2 | Do babies go to heaven or hell? | Gen 5:24 | srbaegon | 154063 | ||
Hi Mark, I get confused about whom I'm talking to as well. :-) "God counts our sin as having been committed by Jesus" I would refrain from going beyond 'became sin for us' otherwise I agree with your paragraph. "Adam started it, and we all continue ourselves to sin. Even babies are self-centered, and will steal, and defy authority. Sin kills. Even babies may die." People died physically because of imputed sin through Adam. Personal sin was not imputed because there was no law to break. I think that's the difference between us. Steve |
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3 | Do babies go to heaven or hell? | Gen 5:24 | mark d seyler | 154068 | ||
Hi Steve, My understanding is that Adam could only reproduce people like himself, and since he had become spiritually dead through trespass, all his children were spiritually dead as well. Being born spiritually dead, it is only a matter of time until we, like Adam, sin. I agree with your statement "personal sin was not imputed because there was no law to break." And I also agree with you on your other point, and will amend my statement to: God punished Jesus for our sin AS IF He had committed it Himself. Regarding your statement "People died physically because of imputed sin through Adam," it seems to me that Romans 5:12 "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:" says to us that death came in because of sin, and all die because all sin, and so that my death comes because I sin, which is inevitable. Although as I think this thru, to say that we are born spiritually dead is to say that we are born separated from God. Separation from God is a result of sin. The sin that separates us from God even from our conception is Adam's sin, so this is an indication that Adam's sin is, in at least this way, imputed to us. You're stretching my mind :-) Do you know of any other scriptures that make this more clear or plain? Love in Christ, Mark |
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4 | Do babies go to heaven or hell? | Gen 5:24 | srbaegon | 154071 | ||
Hi Mark, "My understanding is that Adam could only reproduce people like himself, and since he had become spiritually dead through trespass, all his children were spiritually dead as well. Being born spiritually dead, it is only a matter of time until we, like Adam, sin." You have just defined inherited sin which results in spiritual death. "You're stretching my mind :-)" Happy to oblige. :-) May I recommend a free resource? The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology by W. Robert Cook http://www.moulton.to/theology/default.htm Check out chapters 25-28. Steve |
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