While all mankind are born “in Adam” and face the death that was promised to Adam in his sin, we are offered the opportunity to be “in Christ” instead.
All people share both the guilt and the corruption of Adam’s first sin, and this imputed guilt and inherited corruption reveal why we need Christ’s righteousness and grace—because only in the second Adam can our guilt be forgiven and our nature renewed.
Rom. 5:12 ¶ Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— Rom. 5:13…