#95. Romans 3:24 – The Placer’s Placement of Evil and Sin (Justification Series, Part XVIII)
Part III: Our Justification, Confirmed Being justified gratuitously in His grace… When documenting our beginning, Moses writes that we are made in God’s image and likeness (Gen. 1:26.) We are the last of that which God creates. The heavens already existed, prior to Genesis 1:2. The earth’s environment was prepared before we were placed. Adam’s name means, “most like” – that is, most like God. This name, adm, is the same word translated “human” everywhere else in the Old Testament. At present, we do not live up to this name. Realistically, not one of us is just, or incorruptible, or loving, as God is. Not one of us can claim such a thing (and, if we did, we would be liars, reinforcing the point.) The reason for this is not far to seek. We have been corrupted by a different master – sin. Thus the likeness which God has declared us to become, has not yet come to pass. In a weak figure, humanity is like “Simba” in the first half of The Lion King – clearly being prepared for a likeness to M...