Ziggy
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Sounds good to me.
We are all first made and born perfectly by Christ, whether angel or man, but when we first sinned, as all men do, though not Jesus nor all angels, we were found with iniquity and died spiritual to God.
Jesus is the one and only man to know God after being firstborn pure into the world with mortal flesh.
And so, He was the firstborn who knew and chose God and sinned not from His youth.
I would go a step further and say:
Jesus was the first soul brought into the world without the curse of man's doubt in his DNA.
Adam was "unfaithful" and this "unfaithfulness" or "doubt" was brought into the lineage of humanity.
Jesus was the firstborn who was complete in faithfulness. He had no doubt who he was, where he came from and what he was sent to do.
The rest of the world was "oh ye of little faith", or faithless altogether.
From the day that Jesus died upon the cross, all of humanities original sins were washed away by his own blood.
What we have today is the residue of man's doubts and unfaithfulness placed upon the new generations.
As if we are the scapegoats and sacrifices for what was the original sin.
During the early days of the first church, all people were still living in original sin.
It wouldn't be until that generstion had passed that a new world without original sin would begin.
So when Paul or John is saying that if you say you have no sin, they are speaking to a generation that is passing away.
We no longer require blood sacrifices to remove our sins. And yet the world is still requiring us to believe that we have inherited sin.
And yet Jesus' own death removed that inherited sin which caused death and instead gave us inherited life.
Sin is doubting, sin is faithlessness. And this sin leads to death which is a disconnect with God.
Jesus came to restore faith and to reconnect us to God.
Jesus is the first, born from a world full of doubters and people filled with faithlessness inherited the day Adam and Eve doubted God.
Even Abraham himself was born with inherited sin from his ancestors.
But Abraham chose to believe God and live by faith.
And even their children Ishmael and Issac had this inherited sin, not because Abraham doubted, but because Sarah did.
Why did you laugh Sarah?
So God found a vessel that believed God and had faith in God and her name was Mary.
This inherited doubt and faithlessness would not pass from her or from any man to the new world that was being created without sin.
I do not believe that anyone from beginning in the generations after Jesus' death, was ever born again with inherited sin.
But that doesn't mean that doubt and faithlessness don't exist. We know it does, we see it everyday.
But this is what has changed. We don't have to remain under this curse as an inheritence we can't shake off.
We didn't inherit it in the first place and yet we still feel it necessary to carry it's burden.
Why is that?
Bacause a lot of people make a lot of money preaching that you are still a slave and need to be set free.
And if you follow them and give them money, they will show you the way to salvation.
Friends, we are already free.
Jesus did that the day he gave his life for us.
Now, stop doubting. Believe and ye shall receive.
The rest of humanities sins are of our own making.
We choose to lie, steal, murder, commit adultery...
But these are not inherited sins. These are attributes of our character. The world has taught us these things.
But unlike inherited sin which we could not remove, these sins are things that we can change ourselves.
And Jesus is the example God gave us to walk by.
just rambling...
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