Genesis: Original Sin

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GenesisOriginal Sin

• Mark Hagen
• June 5, 2005

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Genesis Original Sin

• In Adam's fall, we sinned all.
• - McGuffey Reader, c.1836

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Genesis Original Sin

• In Adam's fall, we sinned all.
• - McGuffey Reader
• Original Sin - the sin that is ours as a result
  of Adam's sin

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Genesis Original Sin

• It is original in that it comes from Adam, and
  it is also original in that we have it from the
  beginning of our existence as persons, but it is
  still our sin, not Adam's sin, that is meant.
• - Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology, p.495
• 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
• - Romans 512

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• Doubtless there is nothing more shocking to our
  reason than to say that the sin of the first man
  has rendered guilty those who, being so removed
  from its source, seem incapable of participating
  in it. Certainly nothing offends us more rudely
  than this doctrine, and yet without this mystery,
  the most incomprehensible of all, we are
  incomprehensible to ourselves.
• - Pascal, Edward T. Oakes, Original Sin A
  Disputation, First Things 87, Nov. 1998, 16-24

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• That we could have sinned in Adam may seem
  strange and unnatural to the Western mind.
  Nevertheless, it is congenial to biblical
  teaching on the solidarity of humankind. When
  Adam sinned, the human race sinned because it was
  in him. To put it boldly, Adam was the race. What
  he did, his descendants, who were still in him,
  did also. This principle is also utilized in Heb
  79-10 One might even say that Levi, who
  collects the tenth, paid the tenth through
  Abraham, because when Melchizedek met Abraham,
  Levi was still in the body of his ancestor.
• - NIVBC Rom. 512

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Genesis Original Sin

• These and other conditions support the position
  that the entirety of our human nature, both
  physical and spiritual, material and immaterial,
  has been received from our parents and more
  distant ancestors by way of descent from the
  first pair of humans. On that basis, we were
  actually present within Adam, so that we all
  sinned in his act. There is no injustice, then,
  to our condemnation and death as a result of
  original sin.
• - Millard Erickson, Christian Theology, p.637

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Genesis Original Sin

• God regards the human race as an organic whole,
  a unity, represented by Adam as its head. And
  God also thinks of the new race of Christians,
  those who are redeemed by Christ, as an organic
  whole, a unity represented by Christ as head of
  His people.
• - Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology, p.495-496

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• For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all
  shall be made alive.
• - 1 Corinthians 1522
• for until the Law sin was in the world but sin
  is not imputed when there is no law.
  Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses,
  even over those who had not sinned in the
  likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of
  Him who was to come.
• - Romans 513-14

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Genesis Original Sin

• Here Paul points out that from the time of Adam
  to the time of Moses, people did not have God's
  written laws. Though their sins were not
  imputed "not counted" (as infractions of the
  law), they still died. The fact that they died is
  very good proof that God counted people guilty on
  the basis of Adams sin.
• - Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology, p.494

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• 15 But the free gift is not like the
  transgression. For if by the transgression of the
  one the many died, much more did the grace of God
  and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus
  Christ, abound to the many. 16 And the gift is
  not like that which came through the one who
  sinned for on the one hand the judgment arose
  from one transgression resulting in condemnation,
  but on the other hand the free gift arose from
  many transgressions resulting in justification.
• - Romans 515-16

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• 17 For if by the transgression of the one, death
  reigned through the one, much more those who
  receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of
  righteousness will reign in life through the One,
  Jesus Christ. 18 So then as through one
  transgression there resulted condemnation to all
  men, even so through one act of righteousness
  there resulted justification of life to all men.
  19 For as through the one man's disobedience the
  many were made sinners, even so through the
  obedience of the One the many will be made
  righteous.
• - Romans 517-19

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• Application
• 1. Parenting
• Ps. 515 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
  And in sin my mother conceived me.
• 2. Evangelism
• Rom. 510 For if while we were enemies . . .
• 3. Worship
• Rom. 56 For while we were still helpless . . .

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