...”We were born into sin and have a sin nature that is natural to us. Therefore we sin, because we have a sin nature that we inherited from Adam”...
That’s us since Adam....but what were the natures of Adam and Eve before they sinned? They could not have had the nature we contend with unitl afterward......
***That’s us since Adam....but what were the natures of Adam and Eve before they sinned? They could not have had the nature we contend with unitl afterward......***
They were free of sin, and because of their sin in the Garden, we are born with their sin imputed to us.
Jesus, the 2nd Adam, lived a sinless life. When we come to Him though faith his righteousness is imputed to us.
Romans 5:12Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— 13for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
15But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. 16And the free gift is not like the result of that one man’s sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. 17For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.