It is not my rationalisation why babies die. They are sometimes born with physical abnormalities. Satan can do nothing without the Lord's permission so the idea that he's going round destroying willy nilly is false. He needed permission to attack Job, the demons needed permission to go into swine.
I never said Adam's sin and guilt was passed down. I said the consequences of his sin was passed down. When he sinned, he died spiritually and that caused a genetic mutation. Another law (as per Rom.7) entered his flesh and as flesh begets flesh (Jn.3:6) we inherited that law. It is this genetic fault that acts much like the serpent in the garden did by tempting us to sin and because we are spiritually dead and without the knowledge of God we answer the temptation as best we know how which is based on our own understanding ergo, we sin.
I have to be honest, it never fails to amaze me how anyone can face the Lord Jesus Christ and not be aware of the inherent fault that we possess. Romans 7 makes it abundantly clear we have another/different law at work in our flesh that wages war against our soul (mind).
You say mortality was decreed upon all men yet give me no explanation for death except "the devil did it". You would have no natural death but make every death supernatural. Go take a lesson in biology. Are you even aware there are creatures that don't die?
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Satan can do nothing without the Lord's permission".
Nowhere in the Bible is this stated. Satan can do nothing without man's permission. God made man master of the earth. Man gives permission to satan to kill, steal and destroy when he obeys satan's will. Whoever is doing sin makes himself a slave of sin. Mn also gives satan permission to kill, steal and destroy when man believes satan's lies that contradict what the scriptures say.
God does graciously limit satan's effectiveness against those who trust in God, like Job, because faith pleases God and He chooses to bless faith. Man was given legal dominion over Adam, since it was surrendered to him by Adam when Adam sinned. He is the God of this world in that he does his will among those who believe his lies and in ignorance or in belligerence do his will.
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I never said Adam's sin and guilt was passed down. I said the consequences of his sin was passed down. When he sinned, he died spiritually and that caused a genetic mutation. Another law (as per Rom.7) entered his flesh and as flesh begets flesh (Jn.3:6) we inherited that law. It is this genetic fault that acts much like the serpent in the garden did by tempting us to sin and because we are spiritually dead and without the knowledge of God we answer the temptation as best we know how which is based on our own understanding ergo, we sin."
I agree with the bold part, but then you wander off into unscriptural Christianese rationalising jargon not found in the Bible. "Spiritual death" is not mentioned anywhere in scripture. Death is physical death, or the second physical death or a sentence of future physical death. It is also used metaphorically of continually putting to death daily the old man, the flesh. I just don't see "spiritual death" anywhere.
I don't think it says anywhere that Adam
died spiritually. It does say that he would die within 1000 years, which is within one day of his sin. The lord is not slack concerning His promises as some consider slackness. A day with the Lord is a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. And Adam, and every descendant of Adam, has died
physically within one "day", 1000 years. Why any need to creat a category of spiritually dead, and spiritual death?
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You say mortality was decreed upon all men yet give me no explanation for death except "the devil did it". You would have no natural death but make every death supernatural. Go take a lesson in biology. Are you even aware there are creatures that don't die?"
God's decree is the reason we die. Why God chose to make death within 1000 years universal for all because of Adam's sin is a matter of conjecture. It would seem to limit the amount of damage one individual can do, and it would seem to limit the amount of damage one individual can suffer. It would seem to provide an impetus to get into harmony with God, if I could die today and have to face a judgment. I did not say only the devil is the cause, I suggested animals, demons, men, and poisons in the environment (which would include disease-causing causes). There may be other sources of death for an innocent baby as well. But please, don't straw man your conversation partners just to appear to be winning a debate. That is not a helpful strategy in a genuine search for truth.
