God's words to Adam—“ ‘When you eat of it you will surely die’ ” (Gen. 2:17, NIV)—indicate that death is the result of rebellion against God. Death and sin cannot be separated. This death is not only spiritual; it also designates the physical and eternal death of sinners. Because of its connection with sin, death is not a simple biological phenomenon but a fearful awareness of our eternal separation from the Source of life—a separation that leads to eternal extinction. In all of its expressions, death is like sin, universal and inevitable (Rom. 5:12, Heb. 9:27). With the entrance of sin into the world, the human race was an endangered species about to disappear from the universe. God's creation on Planet Earth, human and nonhuman, was on its way to annihilation.
Read Romans 5:10–21. How did death enter? What caused it? What’s our only way out?
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Read Romans 5:10–21. How did death enter? What caused it? What’s our only way out?
Sin entered this world through Adam & Eve's act of rebellion against God. As with any of us, when we turn our backs on God & try to do things our way, we are doomed to fail from the beginning.
Our only way out comes from God's free gift of grace & salvation.
I have always wandered the meaning of "turning our backs on God and try to do things our way".. how does one stay with God and do things His way? how do we know God's will?
What is the decision making process that secures our alligiance to God's will?
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