Understanding the Apostle's use of "many" and "all" is the heart of his
theology of imputation. You have not grasped the use of imputation in Paul's
argument. If you can handle Micrososft Word I will send an out line of
Romans 5:12-19.
 JGR

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris B. McKinney" <cmck@...>
To: <soundofgrace@...>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 5:42 PM
Subject: RE: [soundofgrace] Infant Salvation


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Reisinger [mailto:jreisinger@...]
> > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 11:32 AM
> >
> > (8)      Romans 5:12 does not say "death spread to all men,
> > because ADAM sinned," but because "ALL sinned." All people,
> > including the infant who dies, actually, literally, "sinned in Adam."
>
> I think this is not a legitimate interpretation of Romans 5:12.  Consider
> that Romans 5:18 says, "Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came
> upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free
> gift came upon all men unto justification of life."  Would you want for
your
> hermeneutic (where "all"=all people, without exception) applied to "the
free
> gift came upon all men unto justification"?
>
> I think that "all" in Romans 5 should be taken to refer to all
_categories_
> under discussion--i.e. "Jews" and "Gentiles" (or "male" and "female", or
> "slave" and "free").
>
> This makes problemmatic your conclusion:
>
> > (10)     The only way the guilty infant can be saved is by
> > proving that just as the infant, and all the elect, were actually
> > in Christ on the cross at Calvary in the same sense that they
> > were in Adam in the Garden. Our condemnation and our
> > justification are both grounded in the same truth of imputation
> > and representation.
>
> Chris McKinney
>
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