Notes: The least sinful thought makes man liable to eternal damnation.
Notes: The least sinful thought makes man liable to eternal damnation.
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In other words, perfect obedience to the law cannot qualify us for salvation, until perfect atonement has first been made for the existing debt of Adam.
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Col 1:21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled 22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight
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Eph 2:3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved).