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You said that "murder opposes God".

How would he know?

Did Cain know it was "opposition to God" to slay his brother?

That is a far cry from your example of opposition, which was to law.

Whatever is not of faith is sin.

Adam chose to be independent of God BEFORE he defied His command.

Sin brought death to all men, making all men independent of the life of God.

False. Sin is independence.

You do not. And, it has nothing to do with my being "right". It has to do with God's word being "right", and you being wrong because you fail to understand God's word concerning sin and death.

The topic is "What is sin?". Concentrate, "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin." Your confusion about what took place when Adam died, and death spread to all men, prevents you from understanding.

Wrong. You just massively fail to comprehend the simplicity of the gospel.

Cain and Abel were both slaves of sin.

It is. "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." "For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death." "For what the law could not...

That is a fleshly view of sin. It is the Spirit that gives life. Jesus (God in the flesh) came to reconcile man to Himself (no longer independent). "I came that you might have life" "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus"...

The law was made. Sin is independence.

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And last 🙂 "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." - Jesus

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This explains much of your confusion about everything. God does do what He wants to, but you claim that God wants to "cause men to obey His laws and suggestions", which would make Him a failure, because no man obeys His laws or suggestions. "Purity" as you suggest, is not possible without the...

Define salvation. I don't believe you can.