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1 | 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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2 | 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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3 | 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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