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NASB | Romans 5:12 ¶ Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned-- |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 5:12 ¶ Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all people [no one being able to stop it or escape its power], because they all sinned. |
Subject: Is sin inherited from father and mother? |
Bible Note: Dear Tim, You were doing fine until this point: "Yet, in v. 5, he acknowledges something which is just as important - that his sin is not some aberration, but an expression of his nature from conception on." This is pure commentary. He cannot be saying what is not true. He must be saying something else. Psalm 58:3 does NOT affirm the same truth. There the unrighteous are liars, the enemies of David are liars from birth. But not David. Psalm 58:3 is exaggeration to say the unrighteous have always been evil. Tim, the 'depraved, sinful nature' doctrine seen as true because ALL sin. "If sin isn't inherited, then why is sin universal?" This argument, though you haven't made it here, would also have to explain why Adam sinned. I prefer to say that Adam sinned by the nature God gave, a free will nature. We too, like Adam, have free will and we sin. It doesn't take a corrupted nature to make man sin: Adam is proof of that. Good day. |