Thread by @Thegod_wolf

Hello,
Got a question for you.

Did you know that Sin is a Law? Do you know how death came?

Paul said in Romans 8:2 how he had been made free from the law of Sin and death. Wanna find out how?

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#SaturdaySonesis:
"THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH"

In Romans 8:2, Paul said, "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death."
How could Paul say such a thing? Does it mean that sin and death are laws?
Well, stick around.

To answer that question, we'll have to look at the Genesis of sin and death. Which coincidentally, is in Genesis 3. (Feel free to read the chapter later.) Adam's sin wasn't necessarily the eating of the fruit of the knowledge of Good and evil,

It really wasn't...

it wasn't because of the fruit in itself. It was because of their disobedience.
And if you look at it, every other type of sin comes from first disobeying God's principles for living.  Their disobedience severed them from the life of God; the eternal life.

Once they had been separated from this life, death kicked in. This was the devil's plan all along. God had given a direct order concerning that tree, and he knew that to sever that connection, he had to get man to disobey that one rule.

Now you may be asking....

"but we Christians disobey God all the time and fail to walk in His principles sometimes too. We choose sin sometimes too, we break God's rules all the time too. Why aren't we why would God forgive us and not forgive Adam? "

Chill.... Lets look at it well...

When God gave that order, notice His statement, " if you eat of that tree, you shall surely die." Here, God wasn't pronouncing a curse on them, as it were, He was stating fact, a truth; He was stating the LAW OF SIN ( even though it may not have been comprehensive at that time

...as it was said in the context of one particular event, more on this later)He was saying in essence, " if you disobey this order, this one hat will happen, regardless of me or not. Your actions  and choices have consequences and death would be one of them.
Recall Rom 6:16

There are also some things I want is to notice :
1 Because man ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, I he immediately knew what I was he did was wrong. Because he now had a knowledge of good and evil, I he knew he had sinned. At that point, man became SIN CONSCUOUS

sin consciousness renders righteousness ineffective. Even if somehow God let him stay in the garden and somehow countered the effects of man's own negative actions, man would still be conscious of his sin and he wouldn't be able to effectively have a fellowship with God.

...He wouldn't be able to take authority over the garden, because he'll keep reminding himself of his sin.

We as Christians can admit that while we have God's life, grace and His righteous nature, when we go wrung, we face the repercussions of those wrong actions. God has saved us from sin, but if we choose to dabble, even if just a little bit, in bad habits and lack of control, ...

...we sometimes face the consequences. How much more the first man in the first ever choice anyone had to make concerning obedience and disobedience.

2 notice also, that when asked why they sinned, first man immediately passed the blame. Male man passed it to female man, who's in turn passed it on to the serpent. This is not what Jesus teaches. Righteousness takes responsibility for its own actions, sin blames others for them

Sin says "it's not my fault," righteousness says "I was wrong and I apologize"

3 Unlike, the first man, when the law of sins states "the soul that sinneth shall die", for us, through Jesus, "the soul that sinneth has died." First man didn't have someone who already carried the full weight of sin and it's effect for us.
Remembwe Paul in 2Cor 5:21?

So to God, and the principles of life, we have already died for those sins.

As you cannot he convicted for the same crime twice, condemning you for a sin that Christ has already died for would be unjust.

GOD IS NOT UNJUST.

Read Rom 3:26

And from here is the main thrust of this dialogue..
I made reference to the first man because in Biblical study, there is what is known as the principle of "First Mention." It holds that to study a topic for its realest meaning, you should go back to where it was first mentioned

As a consequence of Adam's sin, man lost connection of the life and nature of God. He had instead the nature of sin and as a result, he began to die. This is where the law of sin and death tool effect.

Stay with me....

What is this law of sin and death?

First of all I'd like to clarify something; when Paul described this in Romans 8:2, most people have interpreted it to be "the law of sin and the law of death" being shortened into "law of sin and death. "

This is why it's important to have it properly described and explained. God first stated this law by saying " If you disobey," i.e "if you sin you will die" so both sin and death can't  both be  laws at the same time.
God put this law into better perspective in Ezekiel  18:4,20

By the Spirit, the Apostle Paul in Romans 6:23 puts it in an even better perspective. He said "the wages of sin, is death.. " Wages i.e "payment or reward or end result"
Both sin and death can't both be laws, sin is the nature and the law, death is it's end result.
James 1:15

It's like going to school and getting a degree. death is the degree cert after taking classes in the law of sin.  Death is what you'd get at the convocation ceremony of the university of sin. Now do you Get what God was telling Adam?

Paul in Rom 5:12 is epic...

Death is not a punishment from God. Death is what happens when sin has finished. It is the finished product of sin.
Death is not if God, God is all about life.
Read James 1:15 again.

it's important to know that, if as a result of man's sin, Sin didn't just become a law, with death as the reward for keeping it, sin also became a nature. It became man's nature.This law has held man in its grip since the sin of Adam until the death of Adam. Adam was a slave

Did you see that sin to death law again? Are you now seeing  why God hates sin so much? Do you see why He's tryna get His children off that path? Sin can okay lead to one thing: death. He knows what they path leads to and he's trying  to save man, most times from man himself

God is ultimately Love. 
In an attempt to save man, He gave  the Law to Moses. 

The thing about the Moses  law was that it emphasized on what they did, and not they were. God's first attempt to save man was to change them from the outside-in

By giving them those codes to do and not do, He attempted to change their nature. 

We all know how that turned out...

The end result was even worse than before  the law came. Not only was their sin nature open to new  ways to sin, but the sin nature twisted the scope of the law to cage them in perpetual sin consciousness . 

Romans 7:9-12 MSG sheds light...

TANGENT :

This also brings into perspective, why He sent the Jew's into exile. It wasn't so much because He was angry at them for disobeying His laws, it's because there sins would have ruined them. If He left them, they d become extinct.
Read Ezekiel and Isaiah....

These guys were raping, looting and killing their children to worship idols.

Are you high? How will you be killing your children? How will your lineage survive? Did they even think at all?

So the outside-in plan was a bust", God must have thought. "How are we gonna save them from the road they're on? "
God did His research and found out..."Oh! Their nature. I have to change their nature. If I change their nature, sin's law and death would be nullified. EUREKA!!

But herein lay  God's next dilemma. Just like the nature of sin resulted in death, His life, The God-lufe was only paired with the nature of righteousness. Like sin and death, only by righteousness can His kind of life be received. 
Rom 5:17, 6:23

Imparting life and righteousness into a man caged by sin and death could not be done. A man under the law of sin towards death does not have the ability to accept life. It's because everything about the man dies, every part of him experiences death. How can he take life?

God knew this another problem was afoot, how would He get this new nature to men, sin's law and death had dominion, the devil had the Adamic authority, to go against that authority --it was being used wrongly-- would be a breach of His own word, order and principle. ....

No. Man had to be theeans to his own freedom. But God had to have a hand in it before it could work. 

His best bet? A God-Man combo

. "I've got it, I'll go myself. I'll send my Word in the form of man,  I'll change their nature and take away the death from them. I'll call this combo 'Jesus'"

God didn't create sin or even death, it was a covenant man made with satan. It was honored. 

Read Galatians 3:15

God didn't create the sin contract, so He can't outrightly annul, instead, by sending His Word(Jesus), He made an addendum loophole. 

That loophole is in John 3:16

While God created the loophole, He knew He had to find a way to get Big Bad Death, enforcer of this law, out of the picture. And the best way to make the consequences of a law redundant is to obey the law. To face and defeat death, He had to obey the rule that lead to it.

The Soul that sinned had to die. Jesus took on himself the very sin nature for the world.

TANGENT:

Because of the above Scripture, I do not believe that sin had any validity outside of earth.

Sin's law was stamped by the Adamic authority passed with Adam's seal. From what Gen 1:28 tells us, the natural man's authority does boot exceed his life on earth.

I believe on earth is the only place sin has validity. Sin is not valid in Heaven, or even in hell. 
Before you ask, No. People will not go to hell for their sin. Sin is man's nature, ultimately, you can't go against nature.

Men will go to hell because they refused to accept Jesus and his loophole to life. They will go because they chose death.

Thats why when Jesus went to hell, even beating the burden of all the sins of the world, He couldn't be kept there, His righteous nature couldn't be contained. His nature was too volatile for hell. Death couldn't hold Him. 

Acts 2:24 GNB

This meant, that the potency of sin's law and nature, as well as death does not extend beyond the death of Christ. Sin and death ma grip a man, I bit once that man believes in Jesus and confesses His Lordship, sin and death lose their grip. They become ineffective.

The law and nature  of sin and death may have been stamped with the Adamic seal, but God, through Jesus came with a righteous nature and New life that is sealed by a higher authority: His own. 
The devil sin and death can suck it.

Thank You for reading.

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