MAN’S CUMULATIVE DEGENERATION In this area, as we have seen, Pinnock denies the legal imputation of Adam’s sin to the race. But Romans 5:12–19 expressly teaches precisely this fact.34 While it is certainly true that a “warped social situation” is a contributing factor in man’s universal morass of sin, that factor alone hardly suffices as the sole explanation of the biblical description of the condition of man since the fall (see Rom. 1:18–32; 3:10–18; 1 Cor. 2:14; Eph. 2:1–3; 4:17–18). If all