How is our sin nature passed on?
By
Prof. Mario Velez, Th.M.
The process of meiosis and polar
body results in a woman's seed being uncontaminated prior to the time of
fertilization, just as the Lord declared in Genesis 3:15. When it is time for the female ovum or egg cell to be released from the
ovary, the ovum goes through a cell division, which reduces the number of
chromosomes to half their original number.
This division is known as meiosis and results in the ovum discarding
twenty-three contaminated chromosomes in the form of smaller cells known as
polar bodies. Through the disintegration
of these non-functional polar bodies, unneeded cell matter is disposed along
with the contamination of the sin nature.
This leaves one larger egg cell or ovum with the uncontaminated
chromosomes that then grow in the ovary of a woman until it reaches
maturation. At maturation, the egg cell
is carried to the fallopian tubes where it is ready for fertilization by the
male sperm cell. This is the
uncontaminated seed of woman that the Lord reserved in anticipation of the
virgin birth of our Lord in Genesis 3:15.
KJV Genesis 3:15, “And I will put
enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
However, since there is a
sum of forty-six chromosomes that are required for conception, no woman is
capable of conceiving without the fertilization by the male sperm cell. Twenty-three chromosomes are provided through
the female egg cell and twenty-three by the male sperm cell to make the total
of forty-six that are required for conception.
The female ovum with the twenty-three uncontaminated chromosomes of the
mother becomes contaminated at the time it is fertilized by the father's sperm
cell, which is how the sin nature is passed on.
The result of this process is offspring born with the genetically-formed
sin nature. This trend began after Adam
sinned and caused all to be born in sin from that point; therefore, Roman
5:12 says that sin entered the world through one man; that man
was named Adam. But just as God condemned
all humanity through one man, He would also save all humanity through one man,
the perfect Lord Jesus Christ.
Chromosomes are simply the structures that carry genetic information
that are used to give us the characteristics of our parents
KJV Romans 5:12 Wherefore,
as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed
upon all men, for that all have sinned:
By condemning the human race on account of the original
sin of Adam, the Lord is now free to save the human race on account of the work
of salvation done by Jesus Christ on the Cross.
This is one of the reasons that the perfect justice of God is now free
to save small children that might perhaps die before reaching the age of accountability,
as well as the mentally retarded, automatically due to the work of salvation
from the Lord on the Cross. As we were
condemned for the act of the man called Adam, so likewise we are now able to be
saved by the act of another man, the perfect God/Man Jesus Christ.
In the case of the birth of the Lord, God the Holy Spirit
provided twenty-three uncontaminated chromosomes in the place of the
twenty-three contaminated ones that are usually provided by the male's sperm
cell of the human father. When God the
Holy Spirit provided twenty-three uncontaminated chromosomes that were required
to fertilize the egg cell of the Virgin Mary, it completed the total forty-six
chromosomes needed for the conception of the Lord's perfect humanity. As a result, the Lord was born a perfect
human being and without a sin nature. He
was fully qualified to be the perfect sacrifice for the sins of the world. Therefore, the scriptures declare to us that
Christ had no sin (2Cor. 5:21) and appeared once and for
all to do away with sin by the sacrifice of His own self (Heb. 9:26).
KJV 2 Corinthians 5:21, “For
he hath made him to be sin for
us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
KJV Hebrews 9:26, “For then
must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in
the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of
himself.”
Indeed, the head of Satan was crushed
in defeat through the work of salvation that the Lord finished on the cross (John
16:11). However, the
Lord's saving work certainly didn't come without a price. The Lord was indeed bruised by the suffering
He endured. He went through more
suffering because of the cross than we will ever know. Isaiah 53:5 declares
that He was bruised for our sins so that we, who believe, might have peace with
God. That is, so that the Holiness of
God could be satisfied and the condemnation forfeited for the death we deserve.
KJV John 16:11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
KJV Isaiah 53:5, “But he was wounded for our
transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our
peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
Therefore,
it has been Adam's original sin that has caused us all to be born spiritually dead
people with a sin nature. But as I have
already mentioned, through the Lord's saving work on the cross, believers are
able to regain the human spirit that was lost at the fall. God the Holy Spirit creates a human spirit at
the moment that we accept the Lord's saving work on the cross. This is what the Bible calls a spiritual
birth (John 3:6):
KJV John 3:6, “That which is born of the flesh is
flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
A spiritual birth is what is
known as being born-again, not physically but spiritually. The Lord tried to explain this concept to the
Jewish teacher Nicodemus when He explained to him that no man would be able to
see the
KJV John 3:3, “Jesus answered and said unto him,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God.”
KJV Gal. 2:16, “Knowing that a man is not
justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we
have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by faith of Christ,
and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be
justified.”
KJV Rom. 5:1, “Therefore being justified by faith,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
KJV Gal. 3:26, “For ye are all
the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”
KJV 1Pet. 1:23, “Being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.”
KJV Titus 3:5, “Not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of
regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.”
KJV James 1:18, “Of his own will begat he us with
the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits
of his creatures.”
The human spirit that we obtain at spiritual birth is the
immaterial part of us that is designed by God to convert, store and make use of
spiritual phenomenon. God, the Holy
Spirit takes the doctrinal principles that we store in our human spirit as we
learn them and gives us the understanding so that we can believe and apply
these principles in our lives (John 16:13). It is through the perception, belief and
the application of God's biblical principles that we store in our human spirit
that we are able to gain divine wisdom known as God's wisdom. The unbeliever, on the other hand, does not
have a human spirit and is incapable of understanding the things of God, because
we are told in 1 Corinthians 2:14 that the things of God are
foolishness to him because he or she is unable to understand them. At the time that the message of salvation is
presented to the unbeliever, God the Holy Spirit acts as a human spirit to permit
the unbeliever to understand the basis for salvation. In this way the Justice of God gives every
unbeliever an equal opportunity to accept or to reject the message of salvation
through Jesus Christ. The Justice of God
is perfect and will assure that everyone that has reached God consciousness
will have an opportunity to listen to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As a result, they will choose for or against
that Gospel from his or her very own freewill.
KJV John 16:13, “Howbeit
when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he
shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak:and he will shew you
things to come.”
KJV 1 Corinthians 2:14, “But
the natural man receiveth not the things of the
Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned.”