Theres a huge difference between inheriting Adam’s sinful nature and having the guilt of Adam’s sin imputed upon us. Our condemned is not because of what Adam did our condemnation is the result of what we did because of what we inherited from Adam, that being his sinful nature. We are condemned for our own sins not for the sin that Adam committed. Your misquoting Romans 5:14 and omitting a very important detail from that verse.
“Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.”
Romans 5:14 NASB1995
Paul didn’t say that some people between Adam and Moses didn’t sin.
But he did.
The argument of
Romans 5:12-15 is:
Sin is transgression of the law (
which has death penalty attached), as in
Genesis 2:16.
The penalty of sin is physical death (
Romans 6:23).
Where there is no law, there is no sin (
Romans 4:15,
Romans 5:13).
There was no law (
with death penalty attached) between Adam and Moses (
Romans 5:13).
Yet
all, without exception, died--even "those who did not sin" in the likeness of Adam (by breaking a command
with the death penalty attached). (
Romans 5:14).
(Sinful) Adam was a
pattern of the one to come (righteous Christ). (
Romans 5:14)
The
many (who did
not sin) died by the trespass of the
one man (Adam). (
Romans 5:15)
They all died between Adam and Moses (even though
they did not sin)
by the sin of Adam (
imputed to all those born of Adam),
making
sinful (first) Adam the
pattern (
Romans 5:14) of the
righteous (second Adam) Christ
(whose righteousness is
imputed to all those born of Christ). (
Genesis 15:6;
Romans 4:1-11)
If you object to imputation of Adam's sin, then you should also object to imputation of Christ's righteousness.
That contrasting parallel of the imputation of Adam's sin and the imputation of Christ's righteousness is drawn in
Romans 5:18-19.
In answer to your question concerning Romans 6:23 Adam’s sin was the cause of their death but
it was not “imputed” on them. If it was “imputed” on them then that means that they were condemned by Adam’s sin not their own sin which again contradicts what God said in Ezekiel 18:20.
Ezekiel 18:20 also states:
"The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him," yet the righteousness of the righteous man, Christ, is credited to others.
Adam’s sin caused their sinful nature thereby
causing them to sin thus condemning themselves.
You are in disagreement with NT
apostolic teaching that
they did not sin between Adam and Moses (
Romans 5:14).
Your close to being right but your holding on to this imputation doctrine that’s throwing you off. If we are born condemned because God has imputed Adam’s sin upon us at birth before we have committed any sin then Ezekiel 18:20 is incorrect.
By that reasoning, the last half of
Ezekiel 18:20--"the righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to
him," is also incorrect. . .according to
2 Corinthians 5:21;
1 Corinthians 1:30;
Philippians 3:9;
Genesis 15:6;
Romans 1:17,
Romans 3:21,
Romans 4:3,
Romans 5:19, where it is credited to others.
The OT is to be understood in the light of the NT.