Two Adams, Two Humanities: Romans 5:12-21

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned.

One man. One act. One catastrophe.

The story of humanity begins with Adam, and Adam's story becomes our story. Sin entered—not created, but entered—through one man. A door opened that day in Eden, and through it came ruin.

Death through sin. Sin was not the only intruder. Death rode in on sin's coattails. The wages were set from the beginning: sin pays in death.