Tell me. Exactly which law is Paul speaking of?
Excerpt:
Paul on the Law Romans Chapter 6
Adam was given instruction ( H6680 Commandment).
(CLV) Gn 3:11
Then He asked: Who told you that you are naked unless you have eaten from the only tree that I instructed you by no means to eat from it?
He failed to keep the instruction. Therefore he sinned. (disobeyed the commandment). Therefore the consequences 'sin death' or the law of sin and death (
Romans 8:2).
13 for until law sin was in the world, yet sin is not being taken into account when there is no law;"
Clearly Adam's sin was counted. From this we can derive that the Law of Sin and Death came when Adam sinned.
14 nevertheless death reigns from Adam unto Moses, over those also who do not sin in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him Who is about to be."
What is sin?
According to John it's transgression of the law.
(CLV) 1Jn 3:4
Everyone who is doing sin is doing lawlessness also, and sin is lawlessness.
Some believe that Adam had only one commandment to obey. Clearly this is not the case.
Genesis 1:26-30 makes it clear that there had been more, since when man was created.
Many believe that YHWH's commandments weren't given until Moses; but clearly this is not the case.
In
Genesis 4:7 we have our first explicit recording of a sacrifice for sin.
Cain Killed Able; and he was punished for murder. Why would YHWH punish Cain; if Cain didn't know that murder was a sin?
Even if for some reason, one believes that he didn't; after that incident, murder was known to be a sin.
YHWH repeats this command, along with other commandments; before he makes a covenant with Noah.
(CLV) Gn 9:6
Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human his blood shall be shed; for in the image of Elohim He has made humanity.
How did Noah know the difference between clean, and unclean, animals?
(CLV) Gn 7:2
Of every clean beast you shall take with you seven by seven, the sire and his dam, and of the beast that is not clean, of them pairs, the sire and his dam.
This refutes a claim that the law against murder began with Moses. What differed is that Moses received these laws in writing.
Adultery was unlawful before Moses. Abimelek knew it.
Genesis 20:1–7
(CLV) Gn 39:9
He is no greater in this house than I am; and he has not kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How should I do this great evil and sin against Elohim?
Stealing was against the law before Moses.
(CLV) Gn 30:33
My righteousness will answer ifor me, on the morrow day, when you come on my hire before you: Everyone that is not speckled or flecked among the goats and brown among the sheep, that one shall count with me as stolen.
Abraham kept YHWH's laws before Moses received them in writing.
(CLV) Gn 26:5
inasmuch as your father Abraham hearkened to My voice and kept My charge, My instructions, My statutes and My laws.
Some would say that because the details of the law were not broken down in Genesis; that there was no torah before Moses. Clearly this is not the case.
The purpose of the Book of Genesis is obviously not to break down the details of the law. That is done in other books.
