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Impact of Adam's Sin on Humanity

According to the passage, Adam's sin affects humanity in three ways: (1) inherited sin that causes a sinful nature from birth, (2) imputed sin where Adam's guilt is attributed to humanity making us unable to relate to God, and (3) imparted sin where we are born in a fallen state unable to respond to God without grace. As a result, humanity has a sinful nature, is sinful by nature and choice, under wrath, and destined to death. The passage discusses the source of temptation coming from within due to human desire rather than God tempting people.

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Impact of Adam's Sin on Humanity

According to the passage, Adam's sin affects humanity in three ways: (1) inherited sin that causes a sinful nature from birth, (2) imputed sin where Adam's guilt is attributed to humanity making us unable to relate to God, and (3) imparted sin where we are born in a fallen state unable to respond to God without grace. As a result, humanity has a sinful nature, is sinful by nature and choice, under wrath, and destined to death. The passage discusses the source of temptation coming from within due to human desire rather than God tempting people.

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8/1/2021 How does Adam’s sin affect us?

| Real Faith

Sin:
How does Adam’s sin affect us?
…sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so
death spread to all men because all sinned…Romans 5:12

According to Romans 5:12–21, Adam’s sin affects us all in three ways.

(1) There is inherited sin from the original sin of Adam that causes the rest of
humanity to be born into a sinful state or condition. The corrupted sin nature
that we inherit from Adam begins in our mother’s womb.1 This is what John
Calvin referred to as “a hereditary depravity and corruption of our
nature.”2

(2) There is imputed sin whereby Adam’s sin and guilt is attributed, or
reckoned, to us and our legal standing before and relationship with God is
negated. Additionally, by the grace of God, the sinner’s guilt and
condemnation is imputed to Jesus Christ, who atones for sin on the cross
and enables his righteousness to be imputed to the sinner as a Christian.

(3) Adam’s sin is imparted to us so that we are conceived in a fallen state


and, apart from the enabling grace of God, are unable to respond to the
gospel or remedy our depravity. Simply put, we are each sinners by both
nature and choice.3

As a result of our sin nature, we are by nature children of wrath,4 all


sinners,5 and destined to death.6 Speaking of our sin nature, A. W. Tozer
says:

There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose
nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets “things” with a deep and
fierce passion. The pronouns “my” and “mine” look innocent enough in
print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real
nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology
could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our
hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet
lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never
originally intended. God’s gifts now take the place of God, and the whole
course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.7

Therefore, God does not tempt us to sin, but instead the temptation arises
from within our own sinful hearts. Jesus’ own brother speaks of the source of
sin within us:

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Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God
cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person
is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when
it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth
death.8

Do you earnestly believe that God is altogether good and not the source of
evil?

1Pss. 51:5; 58:3.


2John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 vols., ed. John T.
McNeill, trans. Ford Lewis Battles (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1960),
2.i.8.
3Pss. 51:5; 58:3; Isa. 53:6; 64:6; Rom. 3:23, 1 John 1:8.
4Eph. 2:3.
5Rom. 5:12, 19.
61 Cor. 15:21–22.
7A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (Radford, VA: Wilder, 2008), 18–19.
8James 1:13–15; see also Prov. 27:19; Jer. 17:9; Mark 7:21–23; Luke
6:45.

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