[doc1019]

And there are plenty of persons who have never sinned

? Are you saying that the Word of God is wrong? With the exception of Jesus, who was God in the flesh, there has never been anyone who lived a sinless life to my knowledge. Please enlighten me.

[DManA]

to my knowledge.

That’s the key. No HUMAN is without sin. No reason to believe one way or another about some NON-son-of-Adam.

[aruanan]

And there are plenty of persons who have never sinned ? Are you saying that the Word of God is wrong? With the exception of Jesus, who was God in the flesh, there has never been anyone who lived a sinless life to my knowledge. Please enlighten me.

I'm not saying the word of God is wrong. I'm just saying that you're incorrect in your understanding of it. For instance, there are countless persons who have never sinned. They just don't happen to be terrestrial humans; though there may be some extraterrestrial humans somewhere that have nothing at all to do with Adam's sin. The "all have sinned" is referring to the offspring of Adam exclusively. There is nothing implied or necessitated that involves anyone else. And there is a group of persons in our own environs who have sinned for whom the sacrifice of Jesus will have no effect at all, and I'm not talking about Calvin's moronic division of humanity into elect versus reprobate.