{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/sco/rom005.htm","path":"bib/cmt/sco/rom005.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/sco/rom005.htm","text":"The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]\nrighteous\nSee (Rom_1:19).\n(See Scofield) - (Rom 10:10).\nReconciliation\nSee (Rom 5:10-11). (Co2 5:18-20); (Col 1:21).\nhave sinned\nThe first sin wrought the moral ruin of the race. The demonstration is simple.\n(1) Death is universal (Rom 4:12); (Rom 4:14), all die: sinless infants, moral people, religious people, equally with the depraved. For a universal effect there must be a universal cause; that cause is a state of universal sin (Rom 5:12).\n(2) But this universal state must have had a cause. It did. The consequence of Adam's sin was that \"the many were made sinners\" (Rom 5:19) -- \"By the offence of one judgment came upon all men unto condemnation\" (Rom 5:18).\n(3) Personal sins are not meant here. From Adam to Moses death reigned (Rom 5:14), although, there being no law, personal guilt was not imputed (Rom 5:13). Accordingly, from (Gen 4:7) to (Exo 29:14) the sin-offering is not once mentioned. Then, since physical death from Adam to Moses was not due to the sinful acts of those who die (Rom 5:13), it follows that it was due to a universal sinful state, or nature, and that state is declared to be out inheritance from Adam.\n(4) the moral state of fallen man is described in Scripture (Gen 6:5); (Kg1 8:46); (Psa 14:1-3); (Psa 39:5); (Jer 17:9); (Mat 18:11); (Mar 7:20); (Mar 7:23); (Rom 1:21); (Rom 2:1-29); (Rom 3:9-19); (Rom 7:24); (Rom 8:7); (Joh 3:6); (Co1 2:14); (Co2 3:14); (Co2 4:4); (Gal 5:19-21); (Eph 2:1-3); (Eph 2:11); (Eph 2:12); (Eph 4:18-22); (Col 1:21); (Heb 3:13); (Jam 4:14); (Co1 15:22).\nAdam to Moses\nBroadly, the contrast is:\nAdam: sin, death;\nChrist: righteousness, life.\nAdam drew down into his ruin the old creation (Rom 8:19-22) of which he was lord and head. Christ brings into moral unity with God, and into eternal life, the new creation of which he is Lord and Head. (Eph 1:22); (Eph 1:23). Even the animal and material creation, cursed for man's sake, (Gen 3:17) will be delivered by Christ. (Isa 11:6-9); (Rom 8:19-22).\none many\nThe one the many died.\noffences\nSin\n(See Scofield) - (Rom 3:23).\noffence\nrighteousness\nSee (Rom 5:17); (Rom 5:18); (Rom 5:21).\n(See Scofield) - (Rom 3:21).\nsinners\nsin\n\"Sin\" in Romans 6, 7 is the nature in distinction from \"sins,\" which are manifestations of that nature.\nCompare (Jo1 1:8) with (Jo1 1:10), where this distinction also appears.\ngrace\nGrace (in salvation). (Rom 5:2); (Rom 5:15-21); (Rom 11:5-6); (Rom 3:24).\n(See Scofield) - (Joh 1:17).","title":"The Scofield Bible Commentary: Romans: Romans Chapter 5","type":"page"}