If God does then original sin makes perfect sense, right? But, if not then the doctrine of original sin is the most evil doctrine ever foisted upon the church.
In my last message we saw how Ezekiel18 clearly refutes the doctrine of original sin. And that even though this is painfully plain to see seminaries still insist on indoctrinating men and women every day toward this abomination.
It is a theology that instills in pastors and those who have acquired many letters behind their names an almost insatiable drive to reject sound doctrine. Using a method of Bible perversion where they twist scriptures to their own destruction that they have come to call systematic theology. It forces them and others they indoctrinate toward the belief in this false doctrine.
Remember that all those letters don’t mean a thing the next time you hear someone teaching the son bears the iniquity for the sins of the father. They think those letters are evidence for their great knowledge of the word of God. When all it really proves is their willingness to believe anything just so they can acquire those letters.
They are just like the Pharisees in Jesus’ day. Those in Mt.23 of whom Jesus said, 5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.” These are they Paul spoke of saying they were “Ever learning but never coming to the knowledge of the truth.” And in 1Tim.1:7 they are those who “desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.”
I left off last week with a question from what we learned from Ez.18. If death wasn’t punishment imputed to all men for Adam’s sin as these false teachers proclaim, then why does death pass to all men? I hope you all looked it up for yourselves and found the answer.
The answer to this all important question is found in Gen.3:22-24. Here God says, “Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.” Do you see the answer here?
Paul elaborates on this further in his treatise concerning Adam’s sin and it’s affect on his children in Rom.5:12-14. Here he says, “12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
13 For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.”
From these we can see clearly that Ezekiel, Paul, and God Himself tell us that not only was Adam’s sin not imputed to himself. But, also that his sin was not imputed to anyone else. Making it an impossibility for death to be a punishment from God for Adam’s sin.
We can only conclude from this that death passing to all men is the direct result of God placing cherubim to guard the way to the tree of life. This along with Ez.18 is the kind of conclusive evidence we need to be able to safely and soundly reject as false the doctrine of original sin.
And with that we come to know God’s love in a whole different way. One that assures the believer he will never leave or forsake him. And that the fact that God is love is the entire and all consuming motive for everything He does concerning His creation.
A love that reveals to us the truth about God that can only be known if we will reject the doctrine of original sin. And instead believe the truths found in the Genesis account that Paul expounds upon so eloquently in Rom.5:12-14.
It is this love that brought God to become a man. His love that caused Him to join with us in our mortality and death. And His love that gave us free will to choose to believe the gospel by which we receive the gift of faith we place in Him and His resurrection. So that we can join with Him in eternal life and immortality.
If you will do this then you will be saved. By that I mean that God will create in you a spirit that you never had before. A spirit you need because that’s the only way you can become His child and heir to His kingdom. If you will do this… then I will see you there or in the air!
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