Barrier

     Barrier: Romans 3:23  For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

         Mankind commits acts of sin. The penalty of sin is spiritual death. We are all born spiritually dead at physical birth through Adam's imputation. Man's relative righteousness can't compare to God's perfect righteousness.

        SO the character of God demands that our personal sins be judged. We are born into the slave market of sin and will remain slaves as long as we live unless we accept God's solution for sin-redemption.

       Romans 5:12; Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned. 

Each member of the human race received a sin nature, which is the source of temptation to personal sin. Sin takes place when you give in to the temptation of the old sin nature.