The Legal Effects of Christ Coming to Earth as a Baby

Before we can understand the legal effect of Christ being born in a stable in Bethlehem approximately two thousand years ago, we first have to understand what the earth’s and humanity’s legal status was before.

Adam and Eve, and, by family relation, all their descendants, were criminals before God.  And not just any criminals; they were traitors who had defied a specific, simple law to not eat of one of the trees in the Garden in which God had placed them.  They defied God and His law, they trespassed upon property which God had reserved for Himself, they stole from that property, and they conspired with God’s chief enemy in order to attempt to take God’s rule from Him.  We know this from the account in Genesis chapters Continue reading “The Legal Effects of Christ Coming to Earth as a Baby”