The Condition of those Before the Flood (TMF:1559)

Thursday, March 04, 2021
Peace to Live By: The Condition of those Before the Flood (TMF:1559) - Daniel Litton
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       Paul says, “for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.” “Sin is not counted where there is no law.” This doesn’t mean that people didn’t sin against God. It just means because God had not placed a law system in the world yet, that people were incapable of transgressing his law. Adam and Eve went against one of God’s prohibitions in the Garden of Eden. They ate of one of the forbidden trees. So, they broke his Law of that time. But the people after them had not broken any of God’s actual Laws, in a one-on-one basis. Yet, because Adam and Eve had sinned, the people had the sin nature, and they went about sinning in the world, even though they didn’t have a Law to show them what they were doing wrong. However, they were still sinning, it just wasn’t counted. I’m just not sure if we can really understand what this means in full.