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The only thing that has been passed down from Adam is human nature. That is a tendency to sin. But the tendency to sin is not itself a sin. Spiritual death, not physical death, is the result of the sin of the individual, not the sin of Adam. Physical death is an integral feature of the creation.

Romans 5:19 is speaking of the spiritual; 1 Corinthians 15:22 is speaking of the physical. No matter what you believe is the reason for disobedience, it remains that disobedience is a choice.

The belief in Original Sin is a form of universalism. Original Sin is the belief that God universally imputed Adam's sin to all mankind.

Like so many, you fail to understand what Paul was saying in that verse or in the entire passage of Romans 5:12-19. In verse 19 you clearly interpret the "many" that were made sinners by Adam's disobedience to be the entire human race. And though in verse 15 Paul says that the effect (grace)...

Your words, your thoughts. Heb 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. None of that is applicable to God, the Son, Jesus Christ.

The very concept of the faith OF Christ is only meaningful in the sense the religion, the system whereby salvation is available to all who believe in God. Jesus having a faith, namely believing in God in the absence of proven fact, is an absolutely ludicrous concept. Any such thoughts about such...

I would bet that you think you are one of those who have been selected for reconciliation. But of course, in Calvinism you have no way of knowing that.

So then, according to your position of faith being a gift from God, for all those who will receive eternal condemnation, it can only be God's fault for not giving them the gift of faith. God is the reason for all those who are not saved. Such a terrible view of God. That is, of course...

Faith is not a gift. If it were, then God is remiss in not giving that gift to everyone universally. Thus if faith is a gift, and necessary for salvation, then it is God's fault that any are lost.

You might as well ask why God put the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden. According to so many, the reason that all men sin is because Adam and Eve ate the fruit from that tree, so then all the evil that Saul committed before his conversion was ultimately because of that cussed...

Yes, but not exclusively: He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world (1Jn 2:2 ).

For sins, not for the so-called elect. There is nothing said there about the elect. 1Jn_2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

And you think Biden is a better choice? How ridiculous is that?!?!?!?!

I don't see it because it is not there. It is there only in a Calvinist warped view of soteriology. Foreknowledge is not predestination.

There is nothing in that passage to support your false made-up doctrine of election.

And neither did any of the apostles.

Act 2:38 And Peter said to them, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Believing, repenting and being baptized in the name of Jesus Christ unto the forgiveness of sins and...

That is so not true. If the blessing of reconciliation is not by faith, but is accomplished by the death of Christ, then it would have been universal. The distinction between those reconciled and those not reconciled is that those reconciled believed in God, in Jesus, in the Gospel. But of...

But you didn't and I showed you why you didn't.

Both really poor interpretations give by the KJV. Better intepretations are found in better translations such as the ESV, 2Co 5:19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Rom...