Today, many people are drawn to genetic testing because they feel it puts them in control of their health and allows them to take preventive steps to avoid diseases which they may be prone to.
However, there is one disease that’s hardwired in us all, that requires no genetic testing to identify, and leads us all to a certain death; That is sin. Of course, there are those who don’t acknowledge sin nature or see harm in it, but thankfully we can look to the scriptures to guide us.
From Romans 5:12-14:
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:
For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Sin and death have infected everyone from the time of Adam and onward, even in the absence of a formal law.
But God by his grace, introduced the Law through Moses, as standard by which to measure ourselves and as a sure sign that we will always come up short.
By nature we are sinful and fallen and so the sin on our souls should be the disease we’re most concerned with.
Romans 5:20-21:
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
The Law brought awareness to sin, driving mankind to seek righteousness and ultimately a savior in Jesus Christ.
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