The first 3 chapters of Genesis

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Paul sees it otherwise. In personifying it he is telling us not what it is but also that it is not as you say it is. Sin it some kind of thing in and of itself. Law cannot give expression to something that does no exist in some form or other. A potential if you like. Now this isn't strictly Genesis territory. But then again - neither is the word 'sin'.

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That is yet another indication of the non-Jewish roots of Paul. In the view of the Jewish faith, sin, as well as rightousness, is an action.

for trying to avoid the responsilbity for their own actions.Adam blamed Eve. Eve blamed the snake.