"Two Streams of History"

Friday, August 12, 2016

Throughout the history of the human race we see an outworking of two opposing forces, one originating in Adam and the other in Christ. By the disobedience of Adam, all people became sinners, but by the obedience of Jesus Christ, all people may be declared righteous. These are two contrasting streams or paths of history; a stream that flows from Adam which results in death, and a stream that flows from Christ, resulting in life. In Romans, Chapter 5, Paul says that every human being has inherited the negative traits of sin and death that has its roots in Adam. As a consequence of Adam's disobedience, humankind became separated from the life of God. Romans 5:17 says, "For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man..." We have inherited a state of spiritual death and death reigns in the sense that we are born physically well and functioning, but spiritually dead. In Adam, sin preceded death. As a result of his disobedience, he died spiritually, but for us, it is our inherent state of spiritual death, which precedes physical death and makes our sin inevitable.

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