"For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." Romans 7:9
"The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law." 1 Corinthians 15:56
Sin, in scripture, is depicted as an armed and flagrant adversary wanting to kill us, but it could not consummate its desire against us until it found a law that legislated and threatened death against violators. When, therefore, it found such a law, it took occasion to lure us to violate the law, and by this, bring us to the condemnation of the law.
Death could not sting apart from the presence of sin, therefore, the bible says that the sting of death is sin. But sin will be handicapped in bringing about death if there is no law which will condemn all who violate it. It is in this sense that the bible says that the law is the strength of sin, because all are condemned to death who transgress it, for the soul that sins shall die.
In the Garden of Eden, God gave a law forbidding Adam from eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Satan took advantage of this law and tempted Eve, and upon the violation of that law, they and all their descendants became susceptible to death. Before then, death had no power over them because it could not sting apart from the presence of sin.
Toni
"The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law." 1 Corinthians 15:56
Sin, in scripture, is depicted as an armed and flagrant adversary wanting to kill us, but it could not consummate its desire against us until it found a law that legislated and threatened death against violators. When, therefore, it found such a law, it took occasion to lure us to violate the law, and by this, bring us to the condemnation of the law.
Death could not sting apart from the presence of sin, therefore, the bible says that the sting of death is sin. But sin will be handicapped in bringing about death if there is no law which will condemn all who violate it. It is in this sense that the bible says that the law is the strength of sin, because all are condemned to death who transgress it, for the soul that sins shall die.
In the Garden of Eden, God gave a law forbidding Adam from eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Satan took advantage of this law and tempted Eve, and upon the violation of that law, they and all their descendants became susceptible to death. Before then, death had no power over them because it could not sting apart from the presence of sin.
Toni
