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That is a very good question. To have answer to this question, we need to look at the verses before , Romans 5:12-13. It says : "這就如罪是藉著一人入了世界,死又是藉著罪來的,於是死就遍及眾人,因為眾人都犯了罪。沒有律法之先,罪已經在世上;但沒有律法,罪也不算在賬上。". Verse 14 dose not mean only during time of Adam to Moses death reigned (死就作了王). It means before Moses, death had already reigned since Adam's time.
Time can be divided into the following period, the past eternity (Before Adam), the age before the law (From Adam to Moses), the age of law (from Moses to the Lord Jesus), the age of grace (from the Lord Jesus to his second coming back, which is now), the kingdom age (the millennium), and the future eternity.
To understand why Paul said "...從亞當到摩西,死就作了王", we need to pay attention to the linking words "然而". The whole verse reads: "然而從亞當到摩西,死就作了王...". This means death has been the king even before Moses, who received the law from God and beginning with him a new age started.
What caused death? it is sin. As it says in the Bible: "the wages of sin is sin." Therefore, sin and death are linked together. Even though sin had been there since Adam, it was not exposed until the law came through Moses. God gave the laws not to let His people to obide by, but to expose them of their sins. Without law sins can not be exposed. Since law started with Moses, Paul was telling us through verses 5:12-14 that sin had been there since Adam before the law to expose it.
There are so many things on issue I can say. If you are seeking the truth, read the whole book of Romans. It is not easy to understand. There are some good references if you want to go to.
Anyone who wants to understand the Bible and see the truth mush come to his/her spirit. Unfortunately many people, even believers, did not know, or did not agree that God made a spirit in each of us. It is completed separated from our soul. Our spirit is the special organ for us to fellowship with God. It has three functions, conscience, intuition and fellowship with God. When a person's spirit died, this person is dead. When Adam ate from the tree from the knowledge of good and evil, his spirit died and lost fellowship with God. His physical body, which was created by God, became flesh, and eventually died also.
On this topic, we need to know the three lives and four laws to better understand sin and death, grace and eternal life and why we need to receive the Lord to be released from the reigning of death and to have joy and peace in the kingdom of God.
Three lives are:
our physical life, in Greek is bios.
Our soul life, in Greek is Psuche, and
eternal life from God, Zoe. This word only exists in Greek. This may be why the new testament of the Bible were written in Greek.
Four laws are:
outside law (every country, state, has their own laws) 律法,
the law of trying to be good and do good things 心思中善的律, which was put in us by God when we were first created,
the law of sin and death 罪與死的律, which is Satan and entered into man through the fruit of the knowledge, and last
the law of the Spirit of life 生命之靈的律, which is God himself.
Come to your spirit, read Romans chapters 5-8.
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