Terminal! (Romans 5:12-17)

In this powerful episode of *Wisdom for the Heart*, Stephen Davey confronts the universal human denial of death and the deeper spiritual reality of sin's fatal epidemic. Drawing from Romans 5:12–17, he explains that sin entered the world through Adam, not as a single act but as a constitutional change in human nature, making all people sinners by nature and subject to death. He contrasts this 'terminal' condition of humanity with the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, the 'second Adam,' who offers a free gift of grace and eternal life. Davey dismantles cultural philosophies that deny death—such as hedonism, fatalism, and universalism—and emphasizes that only Christianity provides a coherent explanation for both universal sin and universal death, along with a solution: faith in Christ. He calls listeners to recognize their identity not as children of Adam, destined for hell, but as children of God, adopted into a new race through faith in Christ, where death is no longer an end but a doorway to eternal life and the wedding feast of the Lamb.