David1701
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Well, firstly, I believe that "being made sin" is a metaphor (in other words, he was treated as if he were made a mass of sin, not that he actually was).Lol, no, I'm just wondering whether there's anything there that disagrees with my speculations about the nature of sin, anything that would preclude him "being made sin" as an English fact, and not a Greek figure of speech. I wonder about passages that speak of sin as if it had actual existence or even, by some commentaries, personhood. (eg, "Sin crouches at the door. It desires to have you, but you must master it.")
After all, if something you say precludes my speculations, obviously you must be wrong!
Secondly, sin is a corruption of something good (e.g. a lie is a corruption of the truth; sentimentality is a corruption of love, etc.). As an analogy, you could say that a fresh apple is "good", but an apple that has gone off (that's "gone bad", in American) is "sinful". To put this another way: sin is real, but only with reference to the good thing of which it is a corruption.
Thirdly, speaking of sin having personhood is a figure of speech.
