The penalty for sin is death. We die because we commit sin, not because sin is inherited from Adam.
Romans 5:12
Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned.
The Bible plainly tells us Gods people developed a false notion that children were responsible for the sin committed by their father:
The word of the Lord came to me again: What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the childrens teeth are set on edge? As I live, says the Lord God, this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins shall die. Eze.18:1-4
The proverb above is still used by Christians, contrary to Gods own instruction.
Not contrary if one reads on when the Spirit tells us God does NOT HOLD THE SINS of the fathers against the children or vice versa...was not Adam our father as well? His sin (according to God here and elsewhere) is not held against us...all sin...death is the consequence of sin not the penalty...when God told Adam and Eve the day they eat thereof they will die, He was warning them because He loved them...like when your parents said "Thou shalt not run out into the busy street, for in the day you do you shall surely get hit by a car"...they were not saying if you did they would make a car hit you (as a penalty) they said do not do it because they foreknew the consequence...
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