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Paul says flat out in Romans 5:16 that Adam sinned:
And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.

I don't understand your resistance to this. Does the LDS teach that Adam didn't sin?
 
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I showed you a dictionary meaning in the Greek go look it up your self

Can you translate this for me?

οὓς δὲ προώρισεν τούτους καὶ ἐκάλεσεν καὶ οὓς ἐκάλεσεν τούτους καὶ ἐδικαίωσεν οὓς δὲ ἐδικαίωσεν τούτους καὶ ἐδόξασεν
 
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I bet your a lot of fun at parties
 
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Paul says flat out in Romans 5:16 that Adam sinned:


I don't understand your resistance to this. Does the LDS teach that Adam didn't sin?
How could Adam sin when he did not know the difference between good and evil. When he did not know the understand what death was or what disobedience was. God gave him two commandments in which God knew that he didn't understand either. He was innocent like a child. What Adam did do was disobey like a little child does. Can a little child sin? Christ wants us to be as little children and come unto him. Humble and submissive.
 
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Khazars? Everything you said on these pages has zero meaning, now. Ashkenazim are not Khazars, that is genetics taking-not some kooks. The fact that you'd believe in that little gem of overt anti Semitism really disqualifies you from any civilized discussion. Good bye.
 
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He sinned because Paul said he did. I think your definition of sin isn't aligned with Paul's.
 
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Israel was not the aggressor when the Babylonians conquered and enslaved them. And that is what this passage is talking about.

Was Israel violent? Yes or no?

Not at the time.


That is wrong. There are very few Jews out there that come from the Abrahamic line. In fact, they come from the Khazar Jews.

"The “Jews” of America, Europe, and Israel are descendants not of Father Abraham but of King Bulan and the people of ancient Khazaria. Khazaria was an amalgam of Turkic clans who once lived in the Caucasus (Southern Russia) in the early centuries CE. These Turkic peoples were pagans who converted to Judaism in the eighth century. As converts, they called themselves “Jews,” but none of their blood comes from Israel."

You realize you are quoting from an antisemitic website? The problem with Eran Elhaik study is that there we have no Khazar DNA to compare with Ashkenazi Jewry. Furthermore genetic studies done sense them have established that Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews have roughly 30 percent European ancestry, with most of the rest from the Middle East. And here is the real kicker: "In a study of Israeli and Palestinian Muslim Arabs, more than 70% of the Jewish men and 82% of the Arab men whose DNA was studied, had inherited their Y chromosomes from the same paternal ancestors, who lived in the region within the last few thousand years."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_of_Jewish_origins

Anyone looking for the "Lost tribes" may not need to look very far. They are likely sitting right there on the West Bank and Gaza strip.

How else do you think you get white Jews?

Uh, Palestinians aren't that dark.

https://thetruthaboutrockthrowing.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/palestinian-child.jpg

And this is what a Central Asian Turk looks like:

http://i45.tinypic.com/1zoffno.jpg

Look Ashkenazi to you? The reason people in Turkey look white is because only about 30% of their DNA is of Central Asian origin. The rest comes from the largely Greek speaking people's who lived there previously.
 
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I did not know that!
 
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Actually, God did not tell "them" to not eat of the fruit but told Adam to not eat from it. It was Adam's responsibility to ensure Eve knew the Law. That being said, the main point of all of that, I believe, is about perfect love. To have perfect love, we must have a choice to love. God doesn't want us to be made to love Him, but desires us to choose to love Him and love Him completely regardless of our sin. Once Adam made the choice to eat of the forbidden fruit and disobey His one and only law at that time, sin was brought into the heart of man. But here is the question, can there be perfect love without evil? If there is a choice between two things it must first be between choosing good or evil. If everything is good then there really is no choice available. The burden and privilege of existence is that basic choice between good and evil and doesn't everything else falls out of that? If you look at the character of God, even in a basic sense, you realize that He cannot be in the presence of evil\sin. And that truth isn't because He would somehow be hurt or destroyed by that evil\sin but it would be destroyed in His presence, and that includes us in our fallen state. That is why the "fall" of mankind is on the shoulders of Adam. It doesn't matter how it happened or if it was "supposed" to happen but what matters is that God desires for us to love Him with all of our heart. His Word can be seen as many things but but when we begin to understand His character we begin to see that His Word is all about His love for us, His creation made in His image regardless of our sin. There is only one who can keep His law and that is Him. That is why He came to this earth, through Jesus Christ, Yashuah, His seed, to walk perfectly and fulfill His law. He then did what He stopped Abraham to do and He sacrificed Yashuah as the one and only and last lamb to cleanse all of man's sin for those who "choose" to love Him (Yahweh) through Him (Yashuah) and make right what Adam made wrong. It is nothing but love!
 
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Since they were innocent they did not understand what the consequences of disobedience just like a little child. Not that they were little but were as a little child....
This is your unfounded premise for which you make several false assumptions and leads to your incorrect conclusion.
 
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I mean no offense in snipping your response I just wanted to point out how totally awesome your reasoning is here. And I believe that this is exactly what the divine has done. We just ignore the reality because being free to choose means accounting for and accepting responsibility for our actions. At least some of us ignore the truth. Not all.
 
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That's a pretty fascinating perspective! I'd love to hear more about your point of view (preferably via PM, so as not to derail the thread).
 
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One more time.
Disobedience means we are transgressing Gods laws. One way to transgress Gods law is to do so is to willfully by choice and knowledge knowing that it is wrong and still going ahead and doing so. This type of disobedience takes us further from Christ. When we do this we are selfish lustful and deceitful. This is sin. If we disobey Gods laws because we were not aware of just didn't understand the purpose or the consequences this is also transgression but is not a sin. It makes no difference to justice all it sees is a transgression. The consequences or punishment is the same.
 
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Please the two uses could not be further apart in their usage. Paul quote them to illustrate the fallacy of false idol worship.

The 2 occurrences, between Paul and Jude you cite could not be in any more diametric opposition of you tried.

Paul is citing a false premise and uses them to expose this false premise.

Jude cites Enoch IN SUPPORT of a point he is making.

I completely disagree with your dating of the book of Jude as it is NOT a second century book but is dated circa 75 AD. In fact, I can not find ANY mainstream dating that even begins to support your absurd assumption of a second century date.

I looked at 3 different mainstream dates for Jude the earliest being 67 AD and the latest being 85 AD
 
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