I think I concur with Craig that the traditional understanding is that Adam's sin is imputed as Christ's righteousness is imputed. But --in addition--, Adam's sin corrupted his posterity horribly.

A careful exegesis of Romans 5:12-19 will bear this out, showing that -at root- we are condemned in Adam (v1, but -additionally- we are condemned for our own sins. (John Piper in his powerful recent book, "Counted Righteous in Christ", carefully unfolds this idea and imputation in general...)

Great blog, btw!
-TIO
The Immovable Object | 05.12.04 - 12:37 am | #

How do you compare this "as-if" imputation to Paul's own statement in 2 Corinthians 5:21?

"He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."

'to be sin', 'might become' seem stronger than an ironic "as if." But then I'm not quite Reformed anyway.
Charles | 05.30.04 - 9:16 pm | #