Section 7
of God, how can you judge me? I am as right eous as God is. As long as we have the gift of righteousness, judgment is impossible.
Following the gift of righteousness, we have justification, which is versus condemnation. Therefore, we have five items in the credit col umn. The total of these items is life, which can also be considered as the sixth item.
Let us balance our account. We have death as the total on the debit side and life as the total on the credit side. Which is greater? Certainly the answer is life. However, this life is not our physical life, bios (Luke 8:14), or our soulish life, psuche (Matt. 16:25, 26; John 12:25); it refers to the divine, eternal, uncreated, and unlimited life of God that swallows up death, zoe (John 11:25; 14:6; Col. 3:4). This life is Christ Himself as our resurrection life. Thus, the total on the credit side far outweighs the total on the debit side.
With all of this as a foundation, we may now proceed to Romans 6. If we do not have Romans 5 as a foundation, we can never be clear about Romans 6. It is no longer a question of two situa tions or two states; it is a question of two persons, two men. The first man is Adam with all the debits, and the second man is Christ with all the credits. To which person do you belong?