Clare73
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It is the natural law operating throughout all creation. Man is not exempt from it.And who set up this system of our generation?
And according to that law, we are born with Adam's nature; i.e., sinful human.
Sinful humans are at enmity with God (Romans 5:10), are by nature (birth) objects of wrath
(Ephesians 2:3), all condemned by the sin of Adam (Romans 5:18).
That is authoritative NT teaching.
That would be the unimpressive verdict of human reasoning.Who created our eternal spirit to inhabit our earthly bodies and inherit Adam's evil? This doctrine says GOD did and HE did it to put another's sin upon us for which we are judged and die. Just too bogus...
However, I'm thinking Romans 5:18 is not bogus:
"the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men."
"The wages of sin is death." (Romans 6:23)
"by the trespass of one man, death reigned through that one man" (Romans 5:17)
I believe it, evidently you don't.
The JWs make the same declaration that our generation is not a creation from God but is only a natural system but then claim we have no eternal spirit or are not eternal spirits as their answer to my question and conclusion, which confounds me greatly.
Compare the idea that our inheriting Adam's sin is just the nature of being human with the doctrine of our being predestined from before the creation of the world to be conformed to the Son and others are not so predestined and it makes our natural process of becoming evil to be part of GOD's plan which is also confounding. Does light need the darkness? Not at all, darkness is only created when someone opposes the light and blocks it, that is, dark is NOT a natural part of GOD being light.
Does love need hate so that it creates hate? Not at all. Hate can never be produced by love but only by a rebellion against love, a repudiation of the lover.
The divine truth does not come from theologies, it comes from the word of God written, as in the above.The fact that these truths are ignored by those theologies who blind themselves to the fact that this doctrine insists that love and light do create hate and dark by some means or other against scripture is a failure of the theology, not of GOD's nature as light and love.
I take it the rest of post #676 met with your approval.
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