justbyfaith
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You should read a man's entire post before responding to the first few sentences...Proverbs 18:13. I don't intend this as a rebuke per se...only as a tidbit of wisdom for future reference.Man has a "sinful nature" but sin is "transgression of the LAW" according to the actual Bible - see 1 John 3:4
The lost have no power against sin they "do not submit to the LAW of God neither indeed CAN they" Romans 8:4-10
...it boils down to independence from the Lord.
Indeed. Before the LAW was given at Sinai -- people were sinning no matter that it was not "written on stone".
The LAW came 430 years AFTER Abraham - that is when it was "written on stone".
Gal 3: 17 What I am saying is this: the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise..
But God's "spoken Word" is LAW and so LAW existed BEFORE it was "written on stone"
Genesis 26:3...and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.
4 I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; 5 because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws.”
No it is not. There is no text saying "the Law was not in effect until Sinai" and we all know it.
That means it was "SIN" for Cain to kill Abel "SIN is crouching at your door" Genesis 4
That means it was "SIN" For Joseph to give in to adultery "How can I commit this great SIN against God" Genesis
It would always be "SIN" to "Take God's name in vain" -- at every point in history.
Almost All Christian Scholarship admits to this existence of the LAW of God from Adam to this very day.
The sinful nature of man from Adam to this very day -- is a nature with a "bent" toward sin.
Sin "IS transgression of the LAW" 1 John 3:4 -- by definition.
That is creative writing - it is not scripture.
1. Sin is not imputed to the sinner who sins. Rather the sinner who sins is guilty without the sin being imputed.
2. Sin IS imputed to descendants of the sinner - as being among the race of sinners.
More creative writing?
Genesis 26:3...and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.
4 I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; 5 because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws.”
That means it was "SIN" for Cain to kill Abel "SIN is crouching at your door" Genesis 4
That means it was "SIN" For Joseph to give in to adultery "How can I commit this great SIN against God" Genesis
It would always be "SIN" to "Take God's name in vain" -- at every point in history.
And I choose to believe the actual Word of God... to each his own. You have free will.
It means to credit without the item being earned - rather it is credited -- assigned.
For example - Justification by faith - at the moment of justification you have Christ's righteousness imputed to you.
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