By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. Rom. 5:12
"All have sinned: and death came by sin.
But all of us have sinned as the
consequence of that which was 
brought to the world,—because of our
being in that vortex into which the world was plunged by the sin of that
“one man”.
When sin had so entered by that one man, it
was impossible for any of his, of themselves, to rise above that which
he had entailed.
The deception of thinking that they have life in themselves has been for
ages, and is still, the bane of mankind. This deception is couched in
the conception of the immortality of the soul.
Before this deceiver spoke, the Lord had said: “In the day that thou
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Gen. 2:17. And this was the
truth.
“What is your life?” And you know the answer. “It is even A 
VAPOR, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” James 4:14.
So, you can see that this life which all men have for the mere passing
moment, is not real life: it is “even a vapor.” And this death that we
meet when that vapor “vanisheth away” is not real death: it is a sleep.
Take the long, deep breath that belongs to him whose life comes from the depths of the Eternal. " A.T. Jones
