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Old Reggie, You do not seem to understand the problem you have by citing this text from Romans:

1. all have sinned

2. Jesus did not sin

I believe that both 1 and 2 are true. I take it that you also believe that both 1 and 2 are true. Now, unless we can come up with an interpretation of 1 such that 1 does not imply

3. Jesus sinned

then both you and I are committed to believing a contradiction. My solution is to say that 1 is true provided that the term "all" be taken with at least one exception. For suppose we mean "all without exception". If all without exception have sinned, then Jesus Christ has sinned. But we agree that Jesus Christ has not sinned. Therefore, it is not the case that all without exception have sinned. Rather, all, with at least one exception, have sinned. Get it?

Let us do it a different way. What do you say to an atheist who charges that the Bible contains the following contradiction about Jesus Christ:

a.Rom 3:23 all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God Therefore, all humans have sinned.

b.Hbr 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.Therefore, some human has not sinned.

Therefore, all humans have sinned and some human has not sinned.

Therefore, this Bible of yours is a load of crap.