Here is part two;
THE REIGNING POWER OF SIN
As a sinner, man is described in Scripture as “a willing bondslave” of sin.410 Sin is his undisputed lord and master—sin reigns over him with all its deceptive, polluting and perverting control. He is under the guilt, punishment, pollution and power of sin unless he is delivered from this terrible state by the free and sovereign grace of God. Only God in his grace can separate man from his “sins” (plural) and from “sin” (singular) as the reigning,
408 “Federal,” from the Latin foedus, a league or compact. God constituted Adam the representative head of the human race by covenant. He stood before God as Representative Man. Man as a creature had no say in this; it was and remains simply a matter of sovereign and creative right (Cf. Rom. 9:14–21). What God ordains is right because God himself is both ultimate [absolute] and righteous. There is no absolute, law or principle to which he himself is subject. His rightness derives from his own inherent moral self–consistency. If God himself were subject to any other or higher standard or entity, he would himself be relative and not the God of Scripture. 409 “Born again,” lit: “born [receive spiritual life] from above” (gennhqh, a;nwqen), the necessary impartation of Divine life by the effectual work of the Spirit of God for anyone to either see or enter the realm of spiritual reality and truth (Cf. Eph. 2:4–5). 410 The term always used is dou/loj, which denotes someone who is so much a slave that his own will is swallowed up in the will of his master—the picture of abject slavery. 150
controlling principle of his life (Rom. 6:6411; Rom. 6:14412; Rom. 6: 17–18413). The effects of sin are spiritual (fallen man is spiritually dead), moral (fallen man is morally depraved), ethical (fallen man hates God, loves his sin, and suppresses any testimony of Divine truth), and physical (fallen man is liable to sickness, disease and death).
THE NOETIC EFFECTS OF THE FALL
What are the noetic effects of the fall?414 The fall or apostasy from God has left man hopelessly impaired and doomed to futility in his reasoning or perceptive capacity. As an unregenerate sinner, he cannot (because of spiritual, moral and intellectual inability) truly know God, deal with reality (he has exchanged truth and reality for “the lie” and so virtually everything is based on false assumptions [premises] and conclusions, Rom. 1:24–26), or attain unto true knowledge. Because man by nature is under the reigning power of sin with all its consequences, his thought–processes are sinful, fragmented, and doomed to futility; and his mind–set is contrary to God and truth. In short, man apart from God is epistemologically bankrupt and doomed to futility.415
• Unregenerate individuals, rather than come to the realization of the truth, are constantly suppressing the truth by their ungodly and wicked lifestyles. This is a reality, even though the witness of God through creation is sufficient to leave them entirely without excuse. (Psa. 19:1–4; Rom. 1:18–20).
• Man by nature (existing under the effects of the reigning power of sin, and suffering from the noetic effects of the fall) has neither regard for the knowledge of the true God, nor the ability to comprehend reality and truth as they actually exist. Thus man, apart from regenerating grace, neither comprehends nor
411 tou/to ginw,skontej o[ti o` palaio.j h`mw/n a;nqrwpoj [old, of the past, describing the unregenerate self. The believer is the “new man” or regenerate self] sunestaurw,qh [aor., was crucified, a past event], i[na katarghqh/| / [emph. pos. rendered inoperative, stripped of its controlling power or influence] to. sw/ma th/j a`marti,aj( tou/ mhke,ti douleu,ein [to serve as a willing bondslave] h`ma/j th/| a`marti,a|\[Sin is arthrous, and so personified]. 412 a`marti,a ga.r u`mw/n ouv kurieu,sei\ ouv ga,r evste u`po. no,mon [anarth., under a mere outward principle of law] avlla. u`po. ca,rinÅ [anarth., under an inward principle of grace]. Without the def. art. [arthrous], both “law” and “grace” refer to principles. A principle of “law” could only command, but could never enable; a principle of grace, working inwardly and effectually, enables the believer to conform in principle to God’s commands. The unbeliever or unregenerate individual remains under the reigning power of sin. 413 No man is free. He is either a willing bondslave of sin or a willing bondslave of righteousness! 414 “Noetic” derives from the noun nou/j, “mind” [the seat of reflective consciousness, perception, understanding, judging or determining], and the corresponding verb noe,w, “to think, understand, perceive, judge, intelligently determine.” The noetic effects of sin refer to the effects of the fall [apostasy] upon the mind or intellectual ability of man as a sinner. 415 Unregenerate man is univocal in his thinking rather than revelational. “Univocal” (from unus, “one” and vox, “voice,” and so having only one meaning. He is his own pou sto and only source of truth and reality). Regenerate individuals are to be revelational, i.e., they are to live and think in the context of God and his revelation in both nature [God’s created and ordered universe] and Scripture. 151
intelligently welcomes spiritual reality or truth (Rom. 1:21–22; Acts 17:26–28; 1 Cor. 2:14; Eph. 4:17–19; Titus 3:3416).
• Man in his quest for sinful autonomy and meaning, has tried, through idolatry, to drag God down to his level, and has thus side–stepped the Creator to worship creation. He has rejected [reprobated] the one true God in his thinking. God therefore has rejected [reprobated] man in his thinking and has given him over to his own deception, perversion and epistemological futility. Although man has done his utmost to erase God from his thought–process, he still retains a consciousness of God and Divine judgment—the reality of “the work of the law written in his heart.” Against any truth from or about God, man has a great aversion (Rom. 1:23–32; Rom. 2: 14–15417; Rom. 8:7–8).
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Since Jesus was God , He was sinless.
You are a sinner, not because of Adam but because of you.
No....both His sin and my own;
from pt1;
Even if a person could begin from any point in his or her life and live perfectly without sin—even if this were possible—he or she would still be utterly condemned because of original sin and the inescapable inheritance of a corrupted or sinful nature. The condemnation, guilt, polluting reality and power of sin are thus inescapable. Sin permeated the entire human race and immediately began to exercise its deceptive, controlling and perverting influence upon and within the human personality.
Man does not inherit sin or the sin nature
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This is totally mistaken
