Sovereignty and the will, Part III

PART THREE. Romans 5

Some may charge that because man is not free to act irrationally, it limits His moral responsibilty when he does. This is a joke. It is from the very fact that man's morality itself is distorted that he is guilty. This distorted set of desires, outside of the reason, is what causes men to do what is overall irrational, called sin. He is guilty before God, not for an irrational act in a free will, but for his moral corruption and his rebellion as shown in his action. What logic is there in scorning the good and perfect One who created and gives life to all things?

The whole mass of sinners under Adam is guilty. They are not guilty because of a direct act of sin against the Law, like Adam. Yet, it is in their nature to sin like Adam, given a chance. People did not die back then because they broke a commandment of the Law. Romans 5 says that there was no sin to be imputed until the Law but death reigned none-the-less. This means that moral corruption and the state of rebellion against God spread to all men. The consequence of sin reigned called death. All were guilty. The Law came so that sin would abound. Likewise, Christ came so that grace would.

Now we have a period where all men without a direct act of sin in the same likeness as Adam die. It was not an act they did for there was no law. The could not be held guilty for such. It was their fallen state, their spiritual death. Our real sin is merely a reflection of what is known by God to be internally true. This inward stoney heart and our real sin both need to be atoned for. They both have been since Jesus was wounded for our trangressions and pierced for our iniquities. They have been carried away as far as the east is from the west. He has turned our spiritual death into spiritual life.

Now, I have shown that Man is guilty already for his own spiritual death and punished by a physical death, even before being guilty of any direct action of sin. This concurs with my source of responsiblity in discussing sovereignty and free will. (Spiritual death is the principle that causes moral corruption.) It is a fault within the person. It is not a fault of making an irrational decision in a random half-hearted choice. You could have been good enough to choice not to sin right? WRONG!!!! Sin becomes a problem of ignorance with this kind of choosing. I do not believe sin is such. I challenge people to prove it is such, without God actively allowing such ignorance and futility to go on.

If one truly knew the consequences as written about in the bible of hell; a right choice would always be made. Period. Furthermore, it is not just hell that cries out to us not to sin. It is also heaven. A sin in light of a holy and good and perfect creator would seem a ridiculous notion if one could fathom the width, the depth, and size of his love toward us in granting us all (good) things. Why do we wish for that which is bad. Our will has a problem with how we evaluate things. Our sinful desires and affections get in the way. On these incorrect evaluations is what we choose to act upon. The will is broken!

And I hold that it is someone else's duty to prove otherwise! Or prove that our moral responsibilty in the will is exclusively from another source without any reliance upon our original sin! With this said, the results of our rebellion must also be atoned for but our guilt begins with the original sin itself. Romans 5 divorces man's guilt from works. Now some wish it the other way, but it is clear that Romans 9 argues for the rights of potter to use what he will, not the clay in talking back.