If the law was in effect way before Mt Sinai,
how do you explain the following bgsda?
Romans 5
12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—
13 for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.
Until the law, Paul says, sin is not imputed when there is no law.
My do people use this verse as some comfort or protection against the commandments? That isn't what it says here at all.
It says even though the Gentiles didn't know the Law they will still be condemned to destruction. Rom 2:12
(GW) Here's the reason: Whoever sins without having laws from God
will still be condemned to destruction. And whoever has laws from God and sins will still be judged by them.
(AMP) All who have sinned without the Law
will also perish without [regard to] the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged and condemned by the Law.
(ASV) For as many as have sinned without law shall also
perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;
(KJV) For as many as have sinned without law
shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
(NASB) For all who have sinned without the Law
will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law;
(NLT) When the Gentiles sin,
they will be destroyed, even though they never had God's written law. And the Jews, who do have God's law, will be judged by that law when they fail to obey it.
If you don't know the law, you better learn it. It can't save you. ( Rom 3:20 )
Rom 3:20 because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight;
for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.
But it will show you what you need to be saved from. What sin is, and why you need a savior.
Rom 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary,
I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET."
John 14:6 Jesus *said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life;
no one comes to the Father
but through Me.
The verse above doesn't say PART or SOME of the people will come through me.
Acts 4:12 "And there is salvation in
no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we
must be saved."
I mean, really think about it.
Some will come to God by Mohammed and Allah? Some will come by Moroni and Joseph Smith? Some will come by the Pope and the 'Mother of God'?
Some will come by Atheism? Some will come by Buddha? Some will come by astrology?
If this is true, why do we need Christianity?
