> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Reisinger [mailto:jreisinger@...]
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 8:31 AM
>
> JGR: The heart of Romans 5:12-14 is that God's judgment,
> evidenced in death,
> rests on an infant because of his union with Adam. The infant is actually
> guilty in the sight of God and worthy of death the day they are
> born. Romans
> 5:12-14 means beyond question that the infant is responsible to
> God for its
> sin nature because it is on the ground of the sin nature that the infant
> dies.
>
> Job 4:7   "Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or
> where were the
> upright ever cut off?"  (NKJ)

Except for Jesus, you mean?  He may have experienced God's judgment, but he
was still innocent.

Or did he inherit the sinful nature required to deserve God's judgment
through Mary?

Chris