The verse that I had mentioned was Romans 2:12. In interpretation of Romans 5:13-14. Romans 2:12, Romans 5:13-14.
You appear to just want to find anything wrong with what I am saying (that is called nitpicking).
I do not reject the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ. I do not believe that the verse that I quoted rejects it either.
(I suppose that now, you are going to again tell me what I believe and don't believe).
What the verse is saying is that we do not die for Adam's sin; we die for our own (indeed, you did not catch it).
We inherit a sin nature from Adam, and that makes every last one of us sinners who sin. We come out of the womb speaking lies (Psalms 58:3).
We sin from the moment we come out of the womb because we inherited the sin DNA from Adam. But we do not die for Adam's sin; we die for our own sin.
The only sense in which we die for Adam's sin is in that because Adam sinned (in eating the fruit that transferred to him the sin DNA), we carry the sin DNA through heredity. And thus we ourselves cannot avoid the heredity of sin and the actions that develop from it. We die for our own actions; not for the sins of our father Adam.
Yes, I know. But (Rom. 2:12) has nothing to do with imputation. And (Rom. 5:13-14) explains (Rom. 5:12). Which you ignore.
No. There is plenty wrong in what you are saying. I am just pointing it out. You present (Deut. 24:16) to prove that imputation doesn't mean that man does not die for his own sin. So, was Jesus our substitute or not?
Again, you do not explain (Rom. 5:13-14). Just as I said in post #(237) you discount (13-14) due to your interpretation of (12). It demonstrates your error. It demonstrates that it is because of Adams sin that we die. Not our own. So, you disagree. Explain (Rom. 5:13-14).
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