If so, is there any way WE CAN BE SET FREE FROM INHERITING ADAM'S SIN?

Question

ROMANS 5:12 states that "THROUGH ONE MAN, SIN ENTERED THE WORLD". Am I correct in my understanding that the "ONE MAN" being referred to is ADAM.

It just seems SO UNFAIR that WE HAVE TO PAY THE PRICE FOR A MISTAKE THAT WAS MADE BY SOMEONE ELSE...

Answer 1

We don't have to pay for anything but our own actions.
Does anything else seem logical to you, other than that.

Taking on Adam and Eve's "sin" is preposterous.
Please ... don't we have more logic than that?

Why yes ... yes we do! : )

EDIT: All of the thumbs down Christians just proved a point made in another YA question. If you don't agree with an opinion different than your own, you click the thumbs down. I don't do that, even if I don't agree with the opinion. We are all entitled to our opinion and our answer. The thumbs down doesn't bother me, but it proves the point ... that's very "unChristian" of you.

Answer 2

Yes that one man is Adam and no we cannot be set free from inheriting Adam's sin. We were all born into sin because of what they did. Everyone born will be born into sin because Adam and Eve were our first parents. We were derived from them. Think about it this way. We were born to our parents and we inherit things from them. We might look like them act like them. So it's the same with Adam and Eve. We cannot escape the inheritance but we can escape the penalty of the sin by getting saved and allowing the second Adam which is Jesus to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Once we get saved from our sins we are candidates for sanctification which is a purging or eradication of the sinful nature. The seed of sin we were born with can be removed by God after we have proved our love and obedience to him. He replaces the sinful nature with his divine nature. It is so beautiful. Yes! you can be free from it after you seek salvation but not before.

Answer 3

God makes the rules, you and I do not. Play by God's rules, or not, as you choose. if you choose not then you will ultimatly have to sufer the concequences of your choise.... But you need to know that Jesus The Christ has paid the sin debt for all of your sins, including the ones you have yet to commit. If you will come to God in The Way he proscribes He will see no sin in you and you will receive His free gift of Salvation. And you will become of the Body of The Church of which Jesus The Christ is The Head.... only those of The Church will enter Heaven

Answer 4

Yes, that one man was Adam. When he sinned, we became born in sin. Just by being born we sin. In order for Adam's sin to be taken off of us, a second Adam had to come, which was Jesus. We don't have to pay for Adam's sin......God took care of that Himself. He needed a perfect being clean enough to take on all of mankind's sin that Adam started, so that's when Jesus died on the cross, taking all of our sins with Him.

Now when we sin, we just ask for forgiveness in Jesus' name and go our way sinning no more.

Answer 5

I don't believe in sin, so this question doesn't bother me at all. It has recently been found that there are mistranslations of the bible from the original aramaeic. The word sin in ancient Aramaeic actually means to fall short of the mark. I believe in right and wrong don't misunderstand me, but at the same time the Bible was written by men and men are certainly not perfect, in fact most, especially the one's in power tend to be corrupt. The men who were in power back then were obviously corrupt, look at what happened to Jesus, over and over again. The Bible was intended not to be taken literally but to be viewed as a book of parables and examples. The Bible was actually chosen, YES chosen by a council of men presided over by a bishop who was indeed twisted in his views, in the way that he told the pope at that time that the current religious texts that were in existence were preposterous pretty much because they gave women power and common people power and knowledge that the Catholic church did not want them to have. They sat around in a circle and chose was books were to be put into the Bible and whether or not Jesus was actually to be considered divine or just as a man??? The Bible was actually put together about 200-500 years after Jesus's death. And everything that I'm saying makes sense when you think about it, don't you notice how women are degraded and dismissed and villainized in the bible. Jezebel, Eve, Mary Magdalene, Delilah, etc....etc....etc.... Hope that answers your question.

Answer 6

Ok. Adam was absolutely perfect. He represents all in the test, and he fell. Who would you have had represent us? Yourself? Me? We would have fallen much more quickly. Adam was the very best representative we could have had. And he fell, and in him we all fell.
Is there any way we can be set free from inheriting his sin? That is what the second Adam, Christ, is all about. He took the curse of our sin on Himself at the cross. He took the curse of Adam, the curse of Cain, the curse of each of our individual sins.
So how to be free? Simply by accepting, on faith, what Christ did at the cross to take your curse on Himself. "There is, therefore, no no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus". (Romans 8:1)

Answer 7

You don't pay for Adam's sin. It is because of Adam's and Eve's sin that we are all born with a sin nature. If you are honest, you will admit that you have your own sins...and plenty of them.

Answer 8

Sorry, but there is no way to avoid being born into sin, but there is a way out of it. Salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Answer 9

That one man is Adam. The thing is you, yourself sinned before you even knew you did. However, igonorance of the law is of no excuse.

Besides you forget the fact God has provided salvation for us. We are able to recive God's grace due to what Christ did for us at the cross. We must believe.

Answer 10

In the Mormon religion they believe that men will be punished for their own sins and not for adams transgressions. They also have a lot of other beliefs along these lines. Go to www.lds.org for more info.