HP: You have trouble reading the plain truth of Romans 19: 5 as well. Where is any notion of OS found in that verse, or any notion of sin being universal. Go ahead and tell us that 'many' means 'everyone universally, including but not limited to those wicked infants. Oh yes Psalms 51:5. How does that verse say that from conception all men are sinful? David spoke of his mother conceiving him in sin, but how can that be extrapolated to be some proof text for all of humanity being born in original sin? When one speaks of themselves and their mothers sin in the first person, can we simply assume they are making a universal doctrinal statement that is at direct antipodes with their beliefs as Jews?
Hello HP, long time no see. Hope all is well with you and yours, and I will just briefly comment on this statement, if you do not mind.
You have trouble reading the plain truth of Romans 19: 5 as well.
Romans 5:19
King James Version (KJV)
19For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Paul presents the concept that by Adam's disobedience "many" were made sinners, and it seems suggested that "not all" were made sinners, if I get the implication right.
We have but to back up one verse to see that it is "all" inclusive:
18Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
To deny that Paul allows for exceptions or exclusions from this simple bible truth cannot be sustained with any argument that might be presented. That one might wish to deny what is called "original sin" does not negate that scripture is clear that all have sinned, to the exclusion of only one, and that is Christ.
Where is any notion of OS found in that verse, or any notion of sin being universal.
Well, is not the general concept that which describes man being made in the Image of God, only then to disobey the word of God, and this being the first, teh "original" sin? Sin is not ascribed to Eve, she is said to have been deceived, and one must understand their actions to be contrary to God in order for it to be deliberate. Now the nature of natural man, now that we are born in the image and likeness of our earthly fathers, will be the inclination to do that which we not only inherit a proclivity for, but that which we see our earthly fathers do, as well as that which our earthly fathers teach us is...only natural, lol.
Nevertheless, that a lion sins when it kills, or a rock sins when it joins it's fellows in a landslide crushing to death a person, is ridiculous. However, that the entirety of Creation is in need of redemption is an evident scriptural fact.
That Adam's sin had consequences for all of creation is clear, in man, in animals, as well as in plant life.
Romans 8
18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Paul, though a born again believer, tells us that redemption is not yet, physically, complete.
19For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
The whole world awaits redemption. Why is that?
20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
The whole world, like man, is in the bondage of corruption. Only the Children of God, those who have received Jesus Christ, have been delivered, though we yet await a physical aspect to the spiritual redemption, the life we have, in Jesus Christ.
22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Do the rocks cry out? The trees? Personally, I simply look at this as the fact that sin has affected, not just all men, but the entirety of creation itself.
We will see a reversal of this to some extent in the Millennial Kingdom, when animals will revert to their former state, and will again be vegetarians, and refrain from eating one another. But, it does imply...a universal corruption of creation, not just Adam.
23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
And though we have received salvation, while we are a part of this creation, we still suffer from that corruption in the physical sense.
Go ahead and tell us that 'many' means 'everyone universally, including but not limited to those wicked infants.
While not a Calvinist (though I recognize that it contributes to a sound theology), and I do not believe that infants go to hell, I do recognize that all are born with a nature of man, not that of God. God is just, and a requirement of understanding and consequently being disobedient to the revealed will of God, whether that be in the internal revelation of God given to every man, or the clarified revelation of the Son of God, is necessary that man be sentenced to eternal separation. An infant cannot understand either.
David spoke of his mother conceiving him in sin, but how can that be extrapolated to be some proof text for all of humanity being born in original sin? When one speaks of themselves and their mothers sin in the first person, can we simply assume they are making a universal doctrinal statement that is at direct antipodes with their beliefs as Jews?
The only other alternative is to think that men can be righteous according to the standard of righteousness which is the righteousness of God. David was willing to admit his sin, and that sin separates man from God. David speaks in a temporal context, and that he is of the belief that this sin was present before physical birth seems to be an acknowledgment of the sin nature man has inherited from Adam.
Okay, that's it, just a few comments.
God bless.