stunnedbygrace
Well-Known Member
''/but the law was there before it was given. If you don't think Adam and Eve were under the law(they had to be under some law to sin), Cain was. It was a sin to kill. That was in force before Moses. Even the dietary laws were in force.. Noah know the difference between clean and unclean.
The Israelites had to know what was considered unlawful because they had been away from God for so long. At the beginning, the Lord probably just told man the law.
mmm…I don’t think so. Paul talked about before the law was given sin was not held against people, even if they didn’t disobey an explicit command of God as Adam did, they did still sin.
It’s sort of how laws work that unless and until a law is written, you certainly can’t expect a man to abide by it or convict him. The law is needed to convict him. Now after the law is written, even if he never heard it, he’s held to it and can be convicted if he breaks it. The whole ‘ignorance of the law is no excuse’ thing.
Adam and Eve were under a command to not eat the fruit. They broke that command because they became convinced what God said about them dying wasn’t true. The first sin was disobedience because of a lack of trust in what He said. They received punishment for disobeying Gods command/law. But it reads like the children they had, who now had sin in them because they were born of two people who now had sin in THEM, were not held accountable because the law was not yet given. It’s fascinating to think on, isn’t it?? They had only one command/rule/law. Because of the effects of breaking one command, it all went ugly and rolled downhill until the flood and the law and even after it’s still heartbreaking and even seeming to get worse in the world lately. It seems like there’s been a decrease of love and hope even over just the last few years. Or maybe it’s just my imagination or maybe I’m just more aware than I was a few years ago…some say it’s nowhere near like as in the days of Noah yet but I wonder if we’re closer to the tipping point when I see how quickly it can go bad real fast…