"NOT IMPUTATED" IS WHY PAUL COULD SAY THERE WAS NO LAW FROM ADAM TILL MOSES- Rom.5:13

Sin not imputed when there is no law does not mean God had never given instructions to people before Moses. It means that there was no imputation of a penalty for those God gave instruction to if they did not do them. Not for Adam, the people of Noah's day, or Abraham, Isaac and Jacob etc...Show more

Deut.5:1-3 assures us of this. Because here Moses says that God did not give the laws He gave to Israel through Moses for them to keep to anyone else ever. This is why Paul could truthfully say before the law sin was in the world. But sin is not imputed when there is no law.

This means there was a time when there was no law that brought the imputation of sins. This is what Paul was referring to in Rom.7:9 when he wrote- "For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." Which means that even the "moral law" some say has always been written in men's hearts was there before the written law was not written in men's hearts. Because Moses said that imputed sin did not exist before God gave it to him for Israel.