romans 5 (injustice of sin)

"What this man has done, it all extends to you..." -This My Soul, The Gray Havens

The song, "This My Soul," by a little indie band from Illinois, examines the particulars of the Fall of Man and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. 
Talking about Adam the lyrics go...

"Then man from the dust came reflecting
 All goodness and beauty and life
 But he lowered his gaze
 As he listened to the face of low desires

 This my soul you were born
 You were born into
 What this man has done
 It all extends to you"

This speaks plainly on The Fall of Man in the Garden of Eden. Man, made in God's own image sins, thus establishing original sin for all of mankind.

I don't know about you, but when I was younger, this idea of original sin and death because of Adam and Eve's screw ups never really set well with me. Probably because at twelve or thirteen, we're just coming into our concrete senses of justice and the idea of eternal damnation cuz of some loser 6,000 years ago just seems really messed up. 

However, when examining the injustice of death through sin, we must also examine the injustice of life through grace.

Adam and Eve aside, all of us do sin, so we have sealed our own fate anyway. By all means, separation from God for eternity is just. God cannot be with sin, and since we are sinful, we must be separate from God. But because God loves us so much, He made a way for us to be saved from this fate, and the grace offered to us so freely, so entirely, is something we truly cannot deserve.

...The injustice of death through sin//the injustice of life through grace...

Romans 5:12,15,18-20

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men[e] because all sinned...

But the free gift (SALVATION) is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many...

 Therefore, as one trespass[f] led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness[g] leads to justification and life for all men.  For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous. Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,  so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

The Gray Havens sums it up like this- 

Then the perfect son of man
Took the place the voice had planned
Since the garden and before
He took the swords and cursed the grave
There's nothing more to separate us from the promise
The words of a living hope

And this my soul you were born
You were born into
What this man has done
It all extends to you

Adam's sin and Jesus' sacrifice both revolutionized the course of history. By one man, all were sentenced to death, and by one man, all were redeemed. 

I used a lot of words to say a simple thing, but sometimes I need to work through this stuff in my way to understand it, and understanding this endless grace that I receive has been difficult for me lately. Grace is so simple though, and I've learned I need to stop making it complicated. Shame and guilt are never of God. Grace and Mercy are though, and those are freely offered to us day after day after day. So choose grace.