Because it is appointed that all people die physically (Heb.9:27). From the time when Adam ate of the forbidden tree the very tree that would allow people in their mortal bodies to live forever has been denied people (Gen.3:22-24).
No, Adam died in the day he ate of the forbidden fruit, but
not physically. It is talking about spiritual death, and that is part of Paul's argument.
There is no mystery about this. Some people die earlier than others but it is not because Adam's sin and death in sin have been imputed to them.
That does not explain why people physically die. Death reigned.....Read it....Scientists cannot explain why people die....The bible does....The wages of sin, singular......is death......Death reigned, even though there was no law to judge an offense, and even though those after Adam had not committed his offense....."In Adam all die." Sin nature...
Do you really believe that there was no "law" between Adam and Moses even though all the people during that time did in fact have the law which is written on their heart, the law of which the conscience bears witness?
Did not say that-you missed Paul's argument.
Romans 5:12 KJV....Details...Through one man, Adam, sin entered the world. Underline sin-singular..... not sins. Are you with me, class? Romans 5:12 KJV does not have individual acts of commission in view.....what is in view is nature/character......not deeds. When Adam sinned, the sin principle, the corrupt decaying principle of sin entered into the humankind. Survey Genesis.....After his own kind... Adam's passed on to his posterity, Seth, us............a body, with hair,...........he likewise passed on the corrupting principle of sin. Sin entered
humankind. It always existed.The book does not say that Adam "originated" sin, as the sin principle had already originated prior to Adam. For the Bible says the devil "sinneth from the beginning;"
1 John 3:8 KJV
He that committeth sin is of the devil;
for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
(Another thread-"the beginning was not during Adam, Eve, in the garden....The "gap" doctrine). But, regardless, the beginning was the entrance of sin, before Adam..
"In Adam all die.” In Adam all die. All men inherit corruption from Adam.
Sin-singular. Through/by one man, Uncle Adam, "head" of "The Adams Family," sin entered the world, and the second doctrine, death by sin. We croak, not because you/I commit sins, but because we have in us a corrupt, sin nature. Why do babies die, at age 2 weeks? Has that baby committed any "overt" act of sin? Have they done any fibbing? Stealing? Yet, they die.Why? Why do we? Because they/we are "in Adam." We/they "constitutionally" they sinned in the loins of Adam, inherting that sin principle/nature, and with it the penalty as well=death-spiritual. Memorize the contrast.....Paul's "thus"...In Adam/In Christ....
Why do we sin? Prior to justification, we have no choice.....We sin because we are sinners. I am not a liar, because I lied.....I lied, because I am a liar.....Paul...."Every man a liar....". I thought about lying, before I even committed the overt act.
Psalm 51:5 KJV(discussed)
Psalm 58:3 KJV
The wicked are estranged
from the womb:they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Jeremiah 17:9 KJV
The heart is deceitful above all things,and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Job 14:4 KJV
Who can bring a
clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Romans 5:14....Death reigned,verse 14, from Adam to Moses. No formalized law came, until Moses. If death reigned, did people croak, before Moses? Yes. That is Paul's argument....If death reigned from Adam to Moses, then death is not a result of sins....plural....It's not a result of breaking a command....No law....no transgression.....Sin is not imputed where there is no law...Romans 5:13 KJV. Paul was very careful to emphasis....His "thus"...."Nevertheless:"
13 (for
until the law sin was in the world:
but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come
Again....Death is not a result of violating a direct command from God because pre Moses, the law was not there. Read verse 13: says sin can't be charged/reconed/imputed to one's account, when there is no law. How can you break a 55 mile per hour speed limit, if there is no law against it? Paul is arguing.......How can you be guilty for breaking a rule, a transgression, when there's no rule/transgression against it? Right? Thus, Paul is laying out the following logic, being the lawyerly type, probably a former Pharisee: Since you have a period of time from Adam to Moses,where there's no law, and yet death reigns, and people are not dying because they broke a law, then what is it about them that's causing them to croak? Get it? It is not sins, but sin-the sin nature.
Paul is arguing,...underline "Nevertheless:"
13 (for until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come
...that during this period, from Adam-Moses, men die not because they do acts of sin, but because they bear a sin corrupting principle within them, as they had not even committed the sin Adam committed....
had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression,
And so people, post Adam-Moses,didn't sin after the similitude of Adam's kind of sin, violating a known revealed law, but everybody croaked. And thus Paul concludes that we croak,not because of acts of sin, sins, but because we bear the sin principle, which ultimately kills us.
Carry on.
