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john_mark -> RE: Do ALL babies automatically go to Heaven when they die? (4/19/2008 5:04:17 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SovereignIsHe
The above makes clear distinctions, right? The verses separate the children from a specific SIN of the parents, not sin itself...
Now... I ask you, how does the above grant any relief to anyone in the Flood and or Jericho?
John
we see that God can seperate the children from specific sin, so we are left with the question of sin. do we die for adam's sin or our own sin? two passages display the difficulty in answering this question.
the first is the standard response found in romans 5
5:12
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned--
5:13
for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
5:14
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.
discussion of this passage has to be weighted against God's words in ezekiel 18, rather than post the whole passage i will post some excerpts
1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 " What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ' The fathers eat the sour grapes, But the children's teeth are set on edge'? 3 "As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "you are surely not going to use this proverb in Israel anymore. 4 "Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul Fof the son is Mine. The soul who sins will die.
most notably the soul that sins will die
20 "The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son's iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.
as a son of adam (your father), do you die for adam's sin or do you die for your sins?
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