Getting back to more about what this thread is about...
Some say Adam's crooked nature alone is passed down to us but that we are not dying because of Adam's sin as though his transgression was ours. If Adam's transgression was not counted as ours, and we don't die because of Adam's sin, then the opposite in Christ must be considered. This makes Christ the one whose ACT DOES NOT MAKE US RIGHTEOUS.
If Adam's act did not make us sinners, then the opposite must be true with Christ. His act did not make us righteous and we have to work up our own righteousness! And we know that is not true. Righteousness is a blessed gift just as sin was a cursed gift. We earned neither of them.
So, if anyone here believes you're only a sinner because YOU personally sinned, then by the same token you have to believe you make yourself righteous to be saved, and you are involved in salvation by works. The concept of Christ's salvation work in making us righteous is said top be the opposite of what Adam did in
Romans 5. That's what
Romans 5 is about.
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