Genesis 2
15 The LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.
16 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;
17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”
Genesis 3
1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;
3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’ ”
4 The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die!
5 “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.
Genesis 3
8 They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9 Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 He said, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
Romans 5
14 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.
God gave Adam and Eve a
single commandment to obey, so "
don't eat that apple" was the only law in existence* from then until the time of Moses. Unfortunately for them, AND US, our first parents chose to transgress that commandment by doing the one thing God told them
(directly and specifically) not to do
So their sin wasn't "choosing" the law, rather, their sin was "breaking" the law. IOW, they trespassed the direct commandment of God to them, something that no one would be able to do again until God gave Moses the Torah nearly 2,000 years later.
Right, once there were additional laws to violate/transgress after the time of Moses.
Sins were not imputed from Adam to Moses because there were no direct commandments given to mankind between the one commandment He gave Adam/Eve in the Garden and the Torah which He gave to Moses.
Just to be clear, our sins are most certainly imputed to our accounts today, UNLESS we are Christians. The sins Christians commit are imputed to the Savior's account instead, to the One who atoned for our sins/paid the price for our transgressions on the Cross. In doing so, He became sin for/because of us so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him
2 Corinthians 5
21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Yours and His,
David
"Through one man sin entered into the
world, and death through sin"
Romans 5:12
*(just FYI, the law of conscience, IOW, the law that God writes on our hearts at birth .. that gives us a sense of right and wrong .. was in effect between the times of Adam and Moses, and it is by this "law" that the men of old, as well all others outside of Christ who do not know the Law of Moses, will be judged at the end of the age .. Romans 2:12-16)
