Bible Repentance: Path to Love - Robert J. Wieland

we ourselves are sinners; but we find that our
natural human pride too easily holds us back from
the warm empathy that Christ felt for them. How to
learn to experience this kinship is our need.
There is no better way to begin than by learning
to recognize the truth of our corporate involvement
in the sin of the whole world. Although we were
not physically present at the events of Calvary two
thousand years ago, “in Adam” the whole human
race was there. As surely as we are by nature “in
Adam,” so surely are we in Adam’s sin.
How can this be so?
Let any of us be left without redemption to
develop to the full the evil latent in his own soul,
let him be left to be tempted to the full as others
have been tempted, and he will duplicate the sin of
others if given enough time and opportunity. None
of us dares to say, “1 could never do that!”
If Abraham’s great-grandson “yet in the loins”
of Abraham “when Melchisedeck met him” paid
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