While Adam and Eve had alive human spirits, they chose to rebel and be their own ‘life’. They passed that fallen nature which is at enmity with God’s righteousness along to all their descendants. The Cross was God’s way of restoring the life of God and therefore the Character of God back into the soul of men and women through the blood-washed spirit of man. The Cross sits at the center of time, endowing back through to Adam and Eve and forward to us and our descendats. What Adam rejected for the LIFE to direct him from his human spirit, Jesus makes available once again to ‘all who will’ allow him to be the deliverer from the fallen nature. By FAITH His Life is emparted to our human spirit, only by faith else man could boast of righteousness on his own as Adam and Eve tried to do. Mormons aren’t the only ones who don’t get it ... yet.
Amen. Sometimes, in bad moments, I have to remind myself of God’s Grace. Thanks be to Him!!!! None of us have even a little wiggle room to boast. His grace is sufficient.