Part 1
Summary:
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Sin and condemnation came to us all through Adam. His sin was the cause of our sinful state, not ours. Nowhere in the New Testament are we told the human condition of being under sin is the direct effect of us sinning.
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We did not "choose" sinful human nature, we were arranged under it.
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Romans 8:20 and 1 Peter 1:18, respectively, tell us we were subjected to futility and inherited our sense of emptiness and lack of meaning. These are mental/emotional states we all experience and suffer from because we are subject to them.
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God subjected everyone to unbelief.
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We are all under the law, and the law is the strength of sin. God exposes our sin and gives it strength through the law. (Where there is no law, there is no sin.) Therefore, because we are under the law, missing the mark (sin) is inherently connected to its source of strength. The law for righteousness requires us to hit the mark in every aspect of our lives, and our nature is to miss the mark. Tell me this is not a setup for frustration. (Galatians 3:10-13)
We cannot avoid feelings of guilt, shame, emptiness, futility, unbelief, and the like. They are part of the fabric of life, and our attempts to rid them are a never-ending game of Wacomole because human nature does not have within it the ability to cure human nature, and God arranged us under sinful human nature.
Many more texts speak to this subject, and I encourage you to review them, along with my commentary, in the Chapter 1 Appendix. It is not possible to comprehend freedom without understanding the context (slavery) it exists within.