One Man's Sin

‘For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.,’(Ro3:23)
In this context I shall cite another verse again from the epistle to the Romans, ‘wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin..’(5:12-13) St. Paul here is referring to the fall of man. Adam disobeyed a direct commandment of God and with it threw wide open the nature of sin as part and parcel of man’s lot. From the story of Adam’s fall we need to know an axiom: A man’s culpability compromises the entire species. In other words, an individual as representation of the whole. One man’s fall is described in terms of the fall of the whole; one man’s victory opens the way for victory for all. Thu Adam and Jesus are two types each illustrating the above axiom.
Does it not raise many an eyebrow, and through ages we have heard voices refusing the idea of a child being sinful. A baby comes into the world carrying the nature of sin as sure as he is bearing the genetic material of his parents in his person. Here I am not saying a baby would have wilfully sinned but implies he is representative of the entire race and Adam in particular.
How so?
Let me draw your attention to my post of November 18, 2007
A Paradox

Life is indescribable. Having said that in my entry #1 what if I described Life as a matrix? Am I not contradictory?
When I qualify Life as an envelope I am merely using a symbol from direct evidences: nature as a manifestation of Life…
Paradox of Life is like silence, of which we shall have no understanding but for sounds.
From the above our material make up gives Life a discernible form. We are like Adam, a living soul, and yet we bear the material nature of Adam, which makes us share his sin of disobedience as well. We catch the dimensionless Life even though as an aura and we know Him as God. If we call on Him as Father since we have direct experience of an earthly father we are right on and He is indeed ‘Our Father which art in heaven..’
Sin is our patrimony that may be exchanged for another so we are translated from sinful state to that of ‘being set in heavenly places.’(Col 3:1) God’s patrimony is something that we receive by faith. This is where many stumble.
benny