"For Paul, the centre of the Christian faith was that we can never earn or deserve the favour of God, nor do we need to. The whole matter is one of grace, and all that we can do is to accept in wondering love and gratitude and trust what God has done for us." ~William Barclay
I cannot say it any plainer than this: In Adam all are dying. All Adam can do is bring forth death. Death is in his seed. It is corruptible seed having no eternal life. Death is in a baby at conception. David said: "In sin did my mother conceive me." He was not slurring or degrading his mother; he was explaining the imperfection of the male sperm and the female ovum both contain sin and death. All of us were born into this natural death realm in our own order. There is only one way out! In Christ ALL are being made alive. ~Dora Van Essen