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- Welcome to the RapidPoll, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. One thing we must look at when we look at Christian doctrine is the doctrine of mankind.
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- We end up seeing within Christianity that there is a doctrine that teaches us that ever since Genesis chapter 3, when
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- Adam and Eve chose to rebel against God and disobey His commands and to act as if they could become
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- God, they ended up bringing a curse of sin into all of mankind.
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- It is passed on, as Romans chapter 5, 12 and following says, from father to child.
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- This is, by the way, the reason that Jesus Christ had no earthly father. He had no one to pass the sin nature onto Him.
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- Now, as we look at that, we see that even when we are born from the womb, we end up with a sin nature.
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- We all fall short of the glory of God. Romans chapter 3 details that.
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- None is righteous, no not one. No one understands and no one seeks after God.
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- We all will fall short because we have a sin nature. Now, when we look at this, it means that our complete nature, our intellect, our emotions and even our will have been influenced and in fact are enslaved to sin.
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- Because of that, we are enemies of God. However, God has made a way of escape.
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- But what did He do? He had to become a man like us, living perfectly under the law. Then we can be set free.
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- You can learn more about the doctrine of man in my book, What Do We Believe, at whatdowebelievebook .com.
