Logic isn't that hard to understand. Adam and Eve had no inborn Original Sin. Yet they managed to commit sin.
So who came up with the idea we had to inherit the "original sin" from Adam in order to be sinful?
NOBODY! That is what I am saying. Nobody holds that we must inherit Original Sin in order to be sinful.
As I JUST SAID, Adam and Eve had no OS, yet managed to sin. Please pay attention.
If Adam and Eve had somehow remained perfect until they had their children, are you saying the children would have been born sinless and unable to sin?
They would have been born without Original Sin. They would have been capable of their own sin, though. Just like I said above, Adam and Eve had no OS, yet they were capable of sin.
Perhaps it is the name which throws you off? Think of "Original Sin" not as a "sin" as you think of it. Think of it as a condition. The condition is that of not being in fellowship with God.
Remember when Adam and Eve got thrown out of the garden? They were, then, not in fellowship with God, they could no longer walk with God in the Garden. They had sinned and created a gulf between man and God.
Well, guess what? When they had children, the children did not go back to the garden, did they? No.
The children had inherited this condition. And so on, down to us.
It has nothing to do with a sinful act we do or do not do. It is simply a description of the human condition, that of being seperated from God. We are all born that way.
Then is righteousness and sinlessness, passed on through the parents seed?
Yes.
Eve was human and she sinned, Adam was human and he sinned, and if it had been anyone except Christ, they would have also sinned.
Yes, that is the assumption.
The human nature is passed on from parent to child, not some mysterious microscopic sin cell that Adam created.
Please see above.
SD
You should have named "original sin", "original condition". Your church fathers are responsible for you having to spin in the year 2003.