Hence, there are two Adams, a вЂњman-for-ManвЂќ parallelism. The New Testament guides and influences our understanding of the Old Testament, and it should.

This argument is ultimately unsatisfying because it amounts to a kind of post hoc ergo propter hoc argument by starting with the conclusion (we were saved by one Man) and then developing the premise (that it is because one man sinned). Parallelism makes it fitting that because we were saved by one Man, we were steeped in sin through one man. Just as in Adam all die, so in Christ are all made alive ( cf Rom 5:17 1 Cor 15:22 ). This is because sin came through вЂњone manвЂќ and hence we are saved by вЂњone Man,вЂќ the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul makes it clear that we are saved by Christ alone. Not everything I am about to write represents formal Church teaching some of it is speculation on my part. I want to propose several answers, some of them somewhat politically incorrect. How did the sin of Adam become the sin of all his descendants? The whole human race is in Adam вЂњas one body of one man.вЂќ By this вЂњunity of the human raceвЂќ all men are implicated in Adam's sin, as all are implicated in ChristвЂ™s justice (CCC # 404).Paul, the Church has always taught that the overwhelming misery which oppresses men and their inclination towards evil and death cannot be understood apart from their connection with AdamвЂ™s sin вЂ¦ (CCC # 403). Paul affirms: вЂњBy one manвЂ™s disobedience many (that is, all men) were made sinnersвЂќ вЂњsin came into the world through one man вЂ¦вЂќ (CCC # 402). All men are implicated in AdamвЂ™s sin, as St.For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive (1 Cor 15:22 ).Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, вЂ¦ death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam (Rom 5:12, 14).Like Adam, they have broken the covenant-they were unfaithful to me there (Hosea 6:7).While it clearly involved them both, Scripture and Tradition refer to it formally as the вЂњSin of AdamвЂќ or вЂњAdamвЂ™s Sin,вЂќ not the вЂњSin of Adam and Eve.вЂќ It is also described as coming to us вЂњthrough one man,вЂќ not вЂњthrough one man and one woman.вЂќ Consider the following quotes from Scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Original sin is that first sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, committed when they ate the forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Gen 3:1-7).

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