The
difference
is that,
although
Adam and Eve
repented of
their sins
and were
redeemed by
placing
their faith
in the
Messiah and
Savior that
would come
and give His
blood for
their sins
(and that
saved their
souls), but
it did not
take away
the “sin
nature” that
they now had
for the rest
of their
lives.
Romans
7:14-25 says, “14
For we know
that the law
is
spiritual:
but I am
carnal, sold
under sin.
15 For that
which I do I
allow not:
for what I
would, that
do I not;
but what I
hate, that
do I. 16
If then I do
that which I
would not, I
consent unto
the law that
it is good.
17 Now then
it is no
more I that
do it, but
sin that
dwelleth in
me.
18 For I
know that in
me (that is,
in my
flesh,)
dwelleth no
good thing:
for to will
is present
with me; but
how to
perform that
which is
good I find
not. 19 For
the good
that I would
I do not:
but the evil
which I
would not,
that I do.
20 Now if I
do that I
would not,
it is no
more I that
do it, but
sin that
dwelleth in
me.
21 I find
then a law,
that, when I
would do
good, evil
is present
with me. 22
For I
delight in
the law of
God after
the inward
man:
23
But I see
another law
in my
members,
warring
against the
law of my
mind, and
bringing me
into
captivity to
the law of
sin which is
in my
members.
24 O
wretched man
that I am!
who shall
deliver me
from the
body of this
death? 25
I thank God
through
Jesus Christ
our Lord. So
then with
the mind I
myself serve
the law of
God; but
with the
flesh the
law of
sin.” The
apostle Paul
was actually
a very
spiritual
man, who was
sold out to
doing God’s
will for his
life—but
even he
admitted
that the old
“sin nature”
was still
inside of
him, and
gave him a
battle every
day.
We can be
saved from
the penalty
of our sin,
through the
blood of the
Lord Jesus
Christ, but
we will bear
this sin
nature in
these bodies
until we
die.
Because that
is true of
every
person,
there is no
way that any
of us can
produce a
perfectly
holy and
sinless
baby. All
we can
produce is
what we
are—sinners
(some people
are “saved”
sinners, and
some people
are “lost”
sinners—but
all are
sinners).
Romans
5:12 says, “Wherefore,
as by one
man sin
entered into
the world,
and death by
sin;
and so death
passed upon
all men, for
that all
have sinned.”
