ROMANS—NOTE ON Romans 5:15 Paul contrasts the consequences of the work of Adam and of Christ five times in the next five verses. This shows their roles as covenantal heads of the people they represent. Paul clearly teaches “original sin,” the fact that all people inherit a sinful nature because of Adam’s sin. Paul probably is also teaching that all people are in fact guilty before God because of Adam’s sin. Many (that is, all human beings excluding Christ) died. Death begins with spiritual separation from God and ends in physical death.

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