Did all people sin in Adam or like Adam?
“Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people.” Romans 5:18. God created humankind (all its members) in one Man, Adam, on the sixth day of creation. God breathed one spirit, or a unique order of spirit, into Adam. That order of spirit is called Man in the Bible. For political correctness today, Man is humankind. The whole of humankind has one spirit or one intelligence. Therefore, the whole of humankind sinned in the first man Adam. Similarly, the new humankind has one spirit, which God put in Jesus during the incarnation. Therefore, the whole of humankind was justified in the second Man, Jesus Christ.
The human spirit or intelligence is not made of matter. The human body and soul are of matter. The human spirit is from God, who is Spirit, not matter. The human spirit or intelligence is a fixed entity. It cannot increase, decrease, or be impaired in any way possible. Human beings cannot kill the human spirit. God, who gave it to humanity, has the power to destroy any unique order of spirit. At creation, God made the human body. He put a unique order of spirit in the body he made, and the body became a living being or soul. Therefore, the body is made of the same matter as our universe. The order of spirit Man is given. The human soul is neither created nor given. The human soul became when the spirit began acting on the body. It is the same today.
Adam represents the whole of the first humankind because God created all of humankind in him. Therefore, when Adam sinned in the garden of Eden, the whole future members of humankind sinned in him. The sin in the garden of Eden is the father of all sins. The first or corporate sin consists of three categories. “because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but from the world.” 1 John 2:16, NET. The representative of the first or old humankind, Adam, made a deliberate, intelligent decision to disobey God. His decision was on behalf of the whole of humankind. Intelligent decisions are irrevocable. Therefore, Adam’s decision made all his future descendants irrevocably sinners. None of Adams’s descendants could have made a deliberate, intelligent decision. Therefore, humankind became utterly helpless concerning its sinful nature. God only has the power to change the human spirit, the human nature.
The benefit of justification. Read the next blog.
