Three times in Romans five, Paul speaks of a “free gift”. The “Message Bible” refers to it as a “rescuing gift” and a “generous, life-giving gift” that saves men from “the dead-end abyss of separation from God” (5:15). A few verses later Paul describes it as a “wildly extravagant life-giving gift, this grand setting-everything right [gift]”
Sin, as defined in I...