How long after Adam did the law enter?
The law entered 2,500 years after Adam. Romans 5:20 gives this interval, stating the law entered that the offense might abound, not so God could control sinful men or so men could control their own habits and desires. This was its stated purpose.
Les teaches from Romans chapter 5, verse 20, that the law entered twenty-five hundred years after Adam—twenty-five hundred years later. He notes that most people think it should be the other way around, as though the law entered so God could get control of sinful men, or so men could get control of their own habits and desires. But Les says, "Uh-uh!" The law entered for one purpose: that the offense might abound.
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
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Why did the law enter according to Romans 5:20?
Most people think the law entered so that God or people could get control of sin, but Romans 5:20 says it entered for the opposite purpose: so that the offense would abound.