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A Comparison between Adam and Christ. 12 Sin came into the world through one person, and death came through sin. So death spread to everyone, because everyone sinned. 13 Sin was in the world before there were any laws. But no record of sin can be kept when there are no laws. 14 Yet, death ruled from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even ...
- Romans 5:12-21 NIV
Romans 5:12-21. New International Version. Death Through...
- Romans 5:12-21 NIV
Romans 5:12-21. New International Version. Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ. 12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—. 13 To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account ...
- Preceding Context
- Parenthesis?
- Two Races of Mankind
- Sin and Righteousness
- Adam and Christ Must Be Equally Historical
- Conclusion
In Romans 5:12, Paul is coming to the climax of an argument, and it is impossible to appreciate the passage fully without seeing what leads up to this climax. Paul begins his argument by asserting that God’s wrath is being poured out against mankind because of their sinfulness (1:18). The pagan outside the law has no excuse because God has made Him...
There is some disagreement about how Romans 5:12–21 fits into Paul’s thought in the letter. I take the view, along with many commentaries, that verses 12b–17 constitute a parenthetical thought: Paul interrupts his main argument to clarify the relationship between Adam and Christ, and comes back to his original argument at verse 18. A recurring gram...
Paul argues that death spread to all men because all sinned, and death reigned from Adam until Moses, even in the absence of a law to transgress as Adam transgressed God’s command in Eden. The two words translated as ‘because’ in most translations, ἐφ ὠ (eph hō), can also have one of several causative meanings, the most popular being ‘with the resu...
In both cases, it is important to stress that one is counted as sinful not because of one’s own individual sinfulness (though every individual is sinful) or righteousness, but because of one’s relationship to Adam or Christ. In this passage Paul treats ‘sin’ and ‘righteousness’/‘justification’ as forensic or legal terms. The legal aspect of justifi...
Paul is using a typology in this passage which requires Adam and Christ to be equally historical; he is arguing that both individuals acted in ways that had real and lasting consequences in human history. It is impossible for either to be symbolic for Paul’s argument to be coherent. Paul sees Adam and Christ as history’s two most important figures:...
It is not uncommon to read commentaries on Genesis that argue that the first 11 chapters are poetic, or that Adam was just a symbol for all mankind. However, as shown here, Paul’s argument depends completely on a historical individual man called Adam, who committed a real sin bringing real death. Otherwise, why believe in a real historical Jesus wh...
In 15:21 Paul states that through man comes death, so through man comes the resurrection of the dead. Paul speaks of two representative men in world history: the first man, Adam (15:45), and the last Adam, who is the second man—Jesus Christ (15:45, 47). One’s destiny hinges on one’s relationship to these two men (15:48–49), and this ...
- Romans 5:12-21: The passage is the logical center of the epistle, the central point to which everything that precedes has converged, and out of which everything which follows will flow.
- 1 Corinthians 15:22: The contrast instituted here between Adam and Christ refers to death and life, but great difficulty turns on the interpretation of the two "alls."
- 1 Corinthians 15:45: "The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit." The reference to Adam is from Genesis 2:7; the reference to Christ is due to the fact of what He had done and was doing in His manifestation as Divine Redeemer.
- 1 Timothy 2:13,14: Paul uses the creation of man and woman in his argument for the subordination of woman (Genesis 2:7-25). This is no mere Jewish reasoning, but an inspired statement of the typical meaning of the passage in Genesis.
Romans 5:12. NASB Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all mankind, because all sinned—. CSB Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all people, because all sinned. NLT When Adam sinned, sin entered the ...
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Jul 9, 2013 · A. Sin and death entered the world through Adam and “in Adam,” we all sinned (5:12). In passing, note that Paul believed in the historicity of Adam and the story of the fall in the first three chapters of Genesis. Adam was not a mythical figure invented by the author of Genesis to explain how sin entered the human race.
