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Originally Posted by Sho Nuff
Romans 5:12-Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin: and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: For until the law sin was in the world:but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
1. Does this mean God would have tolerated Adam's commission of any sin as long as he didnt eat the fruit of the tree of the knowlege of good and evil and didnt know he was sinning?
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i don't think there was any sin but eating from the tree. that was the only thing God told them not to do, meaning it was the only sin, & they did it anyway.
"For until the law sin was in the world:but sin is not imputed when there is no law."
& i'm not sure if it can be a sin if you don't know you are sinning, somewhere it talks about for those who don't know God or His word, they will be judged by their conscious.
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Originally Posted by Sho Nuff
2. What is the figure?
3. Who is to come?
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my Bible (NIV) reads "Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam*, who was a pattern of the one to come" Romans 6:14.
I think that Adam was the pattern, because many who came after are following in his "footprints," adding to the pattern by breaking a command. so I guess Adam is the figure and we are the "one" to come.
someone else said 2&3 is Jesus . . . . i can't see that just because Jesus did not follow or fit into a pattern, He made His own . . .
*i think it's interesting it says Adam, but nothing about Eve, who helped cause Adam to sin.