[aruanan]

Death comes into the world through "...one man's offense...". Death can only come to those who sinned.

Again, Paul said 4 things explicitly in that earlier passage: 1. Sin entered the world through one man. 2. Death came through sin. 3. All men die because 4. All men have sinned.

He did not say that Adam's descendants died because they were held to be guilty of Adam's sin. He did not say that Adam's descendants sinned because Adam sinned. He did not say that Adam's descendants sinned because Adam died, though interestingly he does say that sin was in the world and death through sin even though God was not holding anyone accountable for it in the absence of the law. Elsewhere (Romans 8:20) we see that the entire creation was subjected to the bondage of decay and death by God in response to Adam's sin. So everyone, including the creation itself, in between the time that Adam sinned by breaking a direct command and the giving of the law, was experiencing the bondage of decay and death because of God's response to Adam's sin, even though God was holding no one accountable for sin in the absence of the law.

[kosta50]

Again, Paul said 4 things explicitly in that earlier passage: 1. Sin entered the world through one man. 2. Death came through sin. 3. All men die because 4. All men have sinned.

Amen, Well, put.