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were present when Adam sinned. We are in a very real sense Adam. This is the seed principle that
Paul spoke of in the following passage.

Hebrews 7:9-10
And, so to speak, through Abraham even Levi, who received tithes, paid tithes, for he was still in the
loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

Abraham was the father of Isaac who was the father of Jacob who was the father of Levi. Yet Paul
states that what Abraham did, Levi did, for he was in the loins of his great grandfather when he paid
tithes to Melchizedek. It is by virtue of this same seed principle that the righteousness of Christ, His
death on the cross, and resurrection to new life are credited to those who are born of His seed.
Because we were “in Christ” as His seed, all His works are credited to us. Similarly, because we were
“in Adam” his works are also our works.

Those who defame their first forebears with profane and obscene charges of gross immorality and
going after strange flesh are in fact slandering themselves. This is the point that Christ was making
to the Jews when He said:

Matthew 23:29-31
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn
the monuments of the righteous, and say, ‘If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would
not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ Consequently you bear
witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.”

Brothers and sisters, we were there when Adam and Eve transgressed in the garden. Their sin was our
sin, and it was serious, for they turned away from God to become servants to their appetites and to
the beast nature. Yet, we can be thankful that they did not do the things that the advocates of the
serpent seed doctrine charge them with. Let us not add to our shame by slandering our own parents,
and charging them with vile wickedness that they did not commit.