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© 2000  Joe Griffin

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The Inscrutable Question: Spiritual Death, Condemnation, & Salvation; Source of the Sin Nature: Intro
	20.	Four verses clarify this principle: 
Romans 5:12 -	Therefore, just as through one man [ Adam ], sin [ the sinful nature ] entered into the world, and [ spiritual ] death through sin [ the sinful nature ], so [ spiritual ] death spread to the entire human race because all sinned when Adam sinned.
Romans 5:8 - God demonstrates His own love to us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died as a substitute for us.
Romans 8:1 - There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
2 Samuel 12:22 - David said, “While the adulterine was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows, the Lord may be gracious to me, that the child may live.’
v 23 - “But now he has died; why should I fast?  Can I bring him back again?  I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”
	21.	Principles:
1)	Because David and Bath-sheba’s adulterine was born with Ray Morgan on first base, he was born condemned and in need of a Savior.  But because he never had the opportunity to hear and respond to the Gospel, then justice could not in fairness condemn him to Torments.
2)	Therefore, the love of God provided the grace solution through which the child’s soul was saved and taken directly into the presence of the Lord.
3)	David knew and understood that following physical death the child could not return to him in this life.  But David also knew that as a believer, he would at his death be reunited with his son in heaven.
B.	Spiritual Death:
1.	Because of Adam’s original sin every human being is born separated from God and incapable of appeasing His perfect righteousness.
2.	This results in the condition of total depravity, which speaks of our moral corruption and deterioration from evil thoughts or influences.
3.	This is the condition into which we are born making us totally helpless to perform any work, sacrifice, or lifestyle change that would enable us to enter into a relationship with God.
4.	This remains the status quo of every member of the human race until he enters into the spiritual birth that occurs at the moment of salvation. 
5.	The event that marks our entrance into spiritual death is the imputation of Adam’s original sin to our genetically formed sinful nature at physical birth.
6.	Adam was federal head of the human race but he abdicated his throne when he made the decision to eat of the forbidden fruit.
7.	In so doing Adam chose Satan’s policy over against God’s policy and this made Satan the ruler of this world.
8.	Adam’s revolt against divine authority led to the creation of the sinful nature and a status quo of spiritual death.
	C.	The Source of the Sinful Nature:
1.	The sinful nature is passed down genetically to each generation beginning with Adam.
2.	The sin nature resides in the cell structure of the body encoded into the DNA.  The sinful nature is the source of all internal temptation.
3.	The man is the transmitter of the sinful nature because Adam committed the original sin of cognizance whereas Eve committed the original sin of ignorance.
1 Timothy 2:14 - It was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being quite deceived, fell into the transgression.
Romans 5:12 - Therefore, just as through one man [ Adam ], sin [ the sinful nature ] entered into the world, and [ spiritual ] death through sin [ the sinful nature ], so [ spiritual ] death spread to the entire human race because all sinned when Adam sinned.
4.	The transmission of the sinful nature occurs at the moment of conception.  This is the formation of biological life.  This is not human life.
5.	The sinful nature remains in a dormant state during pregnancy and is not activated until the imputation of soul life at physical birth.
6.	There is a Hebrew prepositional phrase that supports this conclusion.  It is /m /fB: min beten: “out from the womb.”

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