Why is sin heritable?

False. Satan first introduced sin into the world i.e first being to sin Adam and Eve were the first humans to sin. But I think Larni's question is, why was it a repeating pattern i.e why did God allow it to become a repeating pattern and not just curb it (after all,He hates it)? There has to be a reason why it is a recurring pattern i.e what theologians commonly refer to as original sin.Larni, I don't know the answer. I'm questioning along with you...It seems to me that if Adam's soul was marred because of his sin, then God would give Adam's son a pure soul like Adam once had, making only Adam pay for his sins. It is difficult to not know why....and still believe. Edited by Dr. Sing, : No reason given.

So perfection of mind body and, heart is how you're defining God's image. But I say its more than that. Anyway, the main point is, the inheritable traits and qualities that the sinful Adam possessed do not include his soul, do they? I've never come across a Bible verse that says souls are inheritable i.e a bad person's son will automatically also be bad or vice versa. Its not a question od whether or not Adam's character was marred, its why, because of Adam, are all of our characters automatically marred? And to say that Adam's soul was passed to us all is, to my knowledge, not Biblical. So the law of heredity thing sounds very unconvincing... Dandy statements and all. Nevertheless like sponges, devoid of weight. But, where does perfection lie? In the soul, yes? And we know souls are not inheritable, yes? So where did human perfection get lost or what did God do with it? We never received his sin. We received his sin nature..and we're trying to figure out why we did.

Your intelligence and knowledge, some could only dream of achieving, Modulus. Far from me thinking what you said. I only pointed out a small mistake. Yes, That's how sin entered the world. You said that sin entered creation through Adam and Eve. And I understood your usage of the word "creation" to mean everything God ever created, which includes angels..which includes lucifer. Apparently, you seem to be referring to the earth/world when you say creation. In this sense, Paul, you and I all agree.But when you say, One has to ask, what do you mean by creation? And unless you specifically say something like earth or world something to denote the natural created world, people are prone to assume that you're talking about all of creation--natural and supernatural.Anyway, my intention was only to clear the statement's ambiguity---which might have been present only to my eyes, in which case, I apologize if I offended you.But it is fact that sin entered creation through satan. The question is, WHY did they want to sin as opposed to not sin?
WHY did they not want to master the sin urges as opposed to master them?There must have been some sort of spiritual, i supernatural intervention than brought about this unexpected affinity towards sin in Adam's descendants. I don't see any logic in the idea Adam's soul-now sinful was passed on to us and therefore we are sinful. Yes. The Apostle Paul's not going to side with you on this one. In that case, why do we need Jesus, His death, and resurrection since you seem to imply that perfect purity can be achieved through proper exercise of freewill?Or are you implying that Christ's sacrifice was pointless? Edited by Dr. Sing, : formattingEdited by Dr. Sing, : No reason given.Edited by Dr. Sing, : No reason given.

Animals are also souls like us then?Uhh... People don't inherit souls. Like Dr A said, this is spiritual Lamarckism...weird. So you're arguing for Adam's imperfection before the fall? Hence your use of the word prevented/kept/reject this many times... No one denies that. However, sin is not carried on genes, is it? Ok--how does/did Adam think? If I think a certain way, is it 100% probable that my daughter will think the same exact way I do? Abel is a good case in point here...he certainly "thought differently" from Adam, yes? Enoch? Noah? Righteous people born of a unrighteous man these are...There has got to be more than "we think like Adam because we're his children" to the answer. It is the commonly held belief in Christianity that satan sinned by his 5 "I wills" even before Adam sinned. But that's a different issue, isn't it? You portray OT law as a failed attempt towards achieving righteousness, when in reality, it was only a stage setter for the future coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. I agree with everything you say up until this point.What does sin have anything to do with procreation? Substitute "Adam" with the bolded, and that make sense.But if you want to say what you said, you also have to explain the connection between Adam and his children that is responsible for original sin. What exactly is it that we inherit from Adam that makes us sinful? I understand the chronology and logistics of the events that led to "mankind's fall", but I'm trying to find an answer for why God would not let Adam's sons have a new, righteous soul? There are people in the Bible whose bent was towards God...so much so that God even took Enoch up to be with Him....so why? If you lock a kid up in a room with an adult and the kid makes a mistake, yes, it is the adult's responsibility. But that doesn't exempt the kid from the timeout he needs to get, yes? The mistake was still done by the kid.Right.