I never said that.
I said those in Christ are unconditionally made righteous, as in all in Christ are going to made unconditionally righteous, they are made righteous no matter what because they are in Christ. I never said anyone was unconditionally put into Christ, two very big different statements!
But that is the problem with your interpretation Jordan. You believe that Romans 5:19 is teaching that men are born sinners because of Adam, not because of anything they have done, but you agree a man MUST believe to be placed in Christ. That violates Paul's form of parallelism in this chapter. What applies to one side of each verse MUST apply to the other. Look at the words used;
15 But not as the offence,
so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
16 And not as it was by one that sinned,
so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
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7 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one;
much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life
by one, Jesus Christ.)
18 Therefore 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.
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners,
so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death,
even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Paul is using a form of parallelism here. What he says about the first phrase likewise applies to the second, but to an opposite effect.
If ALL MEN are unconditionally made sinners by Adam, then ALL MEN must unconditionally be made righteous by Jesus. We KNOW this is not true, for the scriptures tell us many men will perish and go to hell.
However, the opposite works perfectly. If ALL MEN are conditionally made sinners when they sin as Adam did, then ALL MEN who conditionally believe as Jesus did will be made righteous. Perfect. Agrees with all scripture 100%.
Think about that for a few minutes Jordan and you will see what I am saying.
Being in Christ has unconditional results, such as eternal life, sonship,etc.
There is nothing unconditional about it, you must BELIEVE to receive eternal life Jordan. Salvation is not unconditional whatsoever.
Paul is merely stating that all who are in Adam will unconditionally die, all who are in Adam will die in their sins, while all who are in Christ will be unconditionally live.
False. We do not unconditionally spiritually die, we die because "all have sinned" in verse 12;
Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men,
for that all have sinned:
This verse does not say Adam's sin passed on all men, it says DEATH passed on all men, FOR THAT ALL HAVE SINNED. Men die spiritually because they have conditionally sinned.
Augustine used a flawed Latin text (he did not read Greek well) that misinterpreted Romans 5:12 to say, "in whom all sinned" which he ASSUMED meant Adam. This translation was error. Even Greek scholars who agree with Augustine say this Latin text was wrong, and that the Greek teaches that all men die "because that" or "for that all have sinned" as our KJB says. The Greek clearly teaches that all men die for their own personal sin.
This is historical fact Jordan that you can look up online in many places. I suggest you do a little study on this. You will find out I am telling you the absolute truth.
Here is what Dr. J.W. MacGorman, a professor of Greek and the New Testament at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for over 56 years said of Romans 5:12-21
Dr. J.W. MacGorman said:
“No passage in this letter is more difficult to understand than Romans 5:12-21. No passage has suffered a greater distortion at the hands of its interpreters.”
“To these difficulties in the passage itself, translators and interpreters have added their own misunderstandings of Paul's meaning. The following items will provide examples of what is intended by this statement:
1. The Vulgate, a fourth-century Latin translation of the Bible, wrongly translated the last clause of Romans 5:12. Where the Greek text has, "Because all men sinned," the Vulgate rendered, "In whom all sinned." Adam was regarded as the unnamed antecedent of "in whom."
2. Upon the basis of this translation error in the Vulgate, Augustine (a.d. 354-430) developed his doctrine of original sin. He taught that all men were seminally present in the loins of Adam when he sinned. Thus he held that the whole human race sinned in Adam's sin. By virtue of our physical descent from Adam, we inherit his guilt. We are born guilty of original sin, according to Augustine. …
3. In the seventeenth century Johann Cocceius proposed a different theory of original sin. He taught that God entered into a covenant with Adam as the federal head of the human race. If Adam obeyed God, all mankind would receive eternal life; but if he disobeyed, all would be condemned to corruption and death. Since Adam sinned, God imputed his sin to all his descendants. This has been called the Federal Theory of Original Sin or the Theory of Condemnation by Covenant. It has influenced greatly the churches of the Reformed tradition. However, there is not one shred of evidence in the Bible that God ever entered into such a covenant with Adam. The theory was born in Europe, not Eden.
4. Many interpreters of Romans 5:12-21 have tended to ignore both its general and immediate context in the letter. In Romans 1:18 to 3:20 Paul set forth his doctrine of sin. Here he showed how all men, Gentiles and Jews alike, have become guilty, because all men have sinned (3:9, 19, 23). Human guilt derives from human sin; it is not inherited. Men are guilty because they have sinned, not because they were born.”
“No interpretation of Romans 5:12-21 that obscures or refutes the plain teaching of Romans 1:18 to 3:20 can be correct. Is it not interesting that Paul managed to demonstrate the guiltiness of all men in this earlier passage without any reference to Adam?”
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Note that last statement by Dr. MacGorman. For the first three chapters of Romans, Paul repeatedly proves that all men, Jews and Gentiles are sinners because they have all sinned and come short of the glory of God. Paul does not mention Adam even once in these chapters.
In fact, Paul only mentions Adam twice in the whole book of Romans, in chapter 5 verse 14. In verse 14, Paul says men from Adam to Moses HAD NOT sinned in the similitude of Adam. They did not sin in Adam's loins in the garden as Augustine imagined. Augustine went completely off the tracks in Romans 5.
