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So do you RnMomof7, dismiss all of Ezekiel 18?

That God is a just God, who does not hold the son responsible for the sins of the father?

18:30 “Therefore I will judge each person according to his conduct, O house of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and turn from all your transgressions; then iniquity will not be a stumbling block for you.

18:31 Get rid of all your transgressions you have committed and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?

18:32 For I take no delight in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!

************************************************************************ If Adam was created in the image of God, and Adam sons were created in Adam image. Where in scripture does it say Adam no longer is in the image of God? Just because they change from immortal to mortal has nothing to do with image!

RnMomof7 you make quantum leaps!

RnMomof7 you make quantum leaps!

Wow!

Able to leap tall doctrines in a single bound!

(Sorry, it just slipped out.)

Itsfreewill, Mom and I disagree on many things, but we serve the same Lord, and both know, whatever we are, it is by the grace of God.

Hank

Genesis 8:21. "And the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." You will note in this passage that evil is already from one's youth. And God declares this immediately after the flood when the only people on this earth were Noah and his family.

A second passage is Psalm 51:5, where David confesses, "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." You have probably heard people speak of "innocent" babes -- but the psalmist insists that he was shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin. He did not consider himself innocent at birth -- but already depraved.

Again, we read in Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?"

Turn now to the New Testament, and first to Romans 3:10-18 (which is a quotation from Psalm 14), where we read, "As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They have all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shedblood; destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace have they not known; there is no fear of God before their eyes." And the same thought is expressed later in Romans 7:18, "For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing."

These are some of the many Scriptural passages which insist upon the truth that natural man is totally corrupt. Natural man is unable to do any good whatsoever. He cannot please God. He will not obey God's holy law. He does not desire to enter into eternal glory.