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Men are slaves of sin. This isn't their fault. They inherited it from Adam. Is it, then, Adam's fault, that the human race are slaves of sin? No, Adam did not create himself in such a way that sin would be passed on. God did that. So God bears at least a very large degree of responsibility for the sin that was inherited & the human history of sins & evil acts. That's not to say that God is at fault for doing so, since that would imply that He sinned, which He never does. God intends to use this for good.
I want to address only the highlighted section.
There is precedence in scripture of the "first Adam, and the second Adam".
"And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." -1 Cor. 15:45 (KJV)
In doing so, I must point out that Arthur W. Pink was 100% correct when he wrote:
"In any treatise that proposes to deal with the human will, its nature and functions, respect should be had to the will in three different men, namely, unfallen Adam, the sinner, and the Lord Jesus Christ. In unfallen Adam the will was free, free in both directions, free toward good and free toward evil. Adam was created in a state of innocency but not in a state of holiness, as is so often assumed and asserted. Adam's will was therefore in a condition of moral equipoise: that is to say, in Adam there was no constraining bias in him toward good or evil, and as such Adam differed radically from all his descendants, as well as from "the Man Christ Jesus." But with the sinner it is far otherwise. The sinner is born with a will that is not in a condition of moral equipoise, because in him there is a heart that is "deceitful above all things and desperately wicked," and this gives him a bias toward evil. So, too, with the Lord Jesus it was far otherwise: He also differed radically from unfallen Adam. The Lord Jesus Christ could not sin because He was the "Holy One of God." Before He was born into this world it was said to Mary, "The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that Holy Thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God" (Luke 1:35). Speaking reverently then we say, that the will of the Son of Man was not in a condition of moral equipoise, that is, capable of turning toward either good or evil. The will of the Lord Jesus was biased toward that which is good because, side by side with His sinless, holy, perfect humanity, was His eternal Deity. Now in contradistinction from the will of the Lord Jesus which was biased toward good, and Adam's will which, before his fall, was in a condition of moral equipoise-capable of turning toward either good or evil"
Arthur W. Pink, The Sovereignty of God, Chapter VII, God's Sovereignty and Human Will, Section II, The Bondage of the Human Will.
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Adam, as created, had the ability to be swayed towards evil, whereas Jesus, being God, knew what evil was and could not for it was completely incompatible with His diety.
To say that God bears at least part of the blame is to lay a charge against God. That is something I would never do.
God Bess
Till all are one.
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