What was the purpose of the law entering, according to Romans 5:20?
According to Romans 5:20, the law entered so that the offense might abound. It came twenty-five hundred years after Adam. Its purpose was not to give God control over sinful men or to let men control their own habits and desires; rather, the law entered for one purpose: that the offense might abound.
Les teaches that Romans 5:20 says the law entered twenty-five hundred years after Adam. Most people think it should be the other way around—that 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 emphasizes "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.