You are missing the point of what “sin” is exactly.
Sin is lawlessness (1 John 3:4). Or as the KJV says, sin is transgression of the law. It is something that one does.
Since sin is by definition lawlessness, there can be no such thing as sin without a valid body of law. Paul says the law gives us our knowledge of sin (Rom 3:20). He says, “I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, ‘You shall not covet’” (Rom 7:7).
Scripture gives abundant attestation to the existence of law, using many terms to describe it. Eight of these appear in Ps 119 alone: “law,” “commandments,” “statutes,” “testimonies,” “word,” “judgments,” “precepts,” and “ordinances.”
The two most general kinds of law have been called moral laws and positive laws. The former are commandments that generally reflect the holy nature of God and thus are absolute and unchanging. They are meant to apply equally to all people in all times and places. Examples are the commandments that forbid murder, adultery, stealing, lying, and coveting (Exod 20:13-17). Positive laws are commandments that express God’s will for specific persons or peoples in specific times and places. Examples are the requirement of circumcision for the OT people of God, and the requirement of the Lord’s Supper for his NT people. Disobedience to either kind of law constitutes sin.
While the moral law applies universally, the existence of positive laws designed for limited application means that more than one law code may be identified. A law code is the totality of the body of commandments that apply to an individual and for which that individual is responsible.
We may distinguish at least three such codes. One consists of the moral law only. This applies to those who have access to this law only as known in their hearts (Rom 2:15) and in the creation (Rom 1:18-21), and who have no access to any form of special revelation of positive laws. Thus even pagans with no knowledge of the Bible have a law code and commit sin when they disobey it (Rom 1:18-32).
The second main law code is the Law of Moses, including Israel’s Old Covenant responsibilities. This code included both the moral law and many positive laws (e.g., circumcision, the Sabbath, animal sacrifices). In its Mosaic form it was intended only for the Jews and for OT times only; disobedience thereto is what constituted sin for OT Israel.
The third law code is the totality of NT commandments as they apply in the New Covenant age. These include the moral law as well as various New Covenant ordinances, all of which are intended to apply to everyone living in this New Covenant age. Today all those who have access to the NT yet disobey its commandments are guilty of sin.
A presupposition of sin in the life of the individual is the knowledge of God’s law, or at least the possibility of knowing his law. Knowledge of sin comes through knowledge of law (Rom 3:20; 7:7). The first three chapters of Romans make it clear that because of general revelation, in one form or another law is in fact everywhere (Rom 1:18-21,32; 2:14-15). This means that the knowledge of law is available to everyone. But in Rom 4:15 Paul notes that “where there is no law, there also is no violation.” In view of Rom 1–3 (especially 2:15), how can there be any situation “where there is no law”? In the final analysis this must refer to an individual’s unavoidable ignorance of the law, as in the case of children who have not reached the age of accountability and in the case of the mentally handicapped, i.e., anyone who is unable to understand the origin and nature of law as commandments of God bearing the penalty of eternal wrath (Rom 7:9). Willful ignorance of the law, however, is no excuse (Rom 1:18; Eph 4:18).
There is much more that can be said about the nature of sin, but that should suffice to show you that I am not missing the point of what sin is exactly.
The word “sin” is an archery term that means to “miss the mark”….it means that humankind “miss the mark” of the perfection with which Adam was created. After sin entered the human race, all Adam’s offspring inherited his defect.
When sin entered the human genome, it became a defect in mankind. How did sin enter the human race? Through the actions of one man…(Rom 5:12) it is an inheritance, passed on genetically so that we cannot escape this genetic death sentence.
Sin did not enter the human genome. There is no "sin gene". And any category of thoughts that you have that derive from such an idea will invariably be wrong. So much of what followed falls within that category.
Think for a moment about what you just said…..all humans sinned because they wanted to? Why would God create all humans to sin?
God did not create all humans to sin. God created all humans with the ability to obey or not as they wished. Along with that God set down certain commandments that He wanted to be obeyed.
Why was there a death penalty for sinning if God was just going to sit back and watch his creation wither up in old age or sickness and die? That makes no sense. We are made in his image…and death was never supposed to be a part of that.
Physical death is an integral part of creation. There is no such thing as inherent physical immortality in the whole of the physical universe. There are occasions where sin does result in physical damage or even death of either the sinner or an innocent bystander. But that is not what Paul in Roman 6:23 is talking about. When Paul says there that the wages of sin is death, the death that he is talking about is spiritual death, the death that he later says in Ephesians 2:1 that we were once death in trespasses and sins. Sin results in a damage to the spirit of man, not the body of man. It is the spirit that needs to be reborn, not the flesh (John 3:1-16).
Adam was the first human to misuse his free will, baited by the devil, (who was the first rebel) by using his affection for his wife to encourage him to make a bad decision. Adam played right into that scheme, thereby making satan his god and ruler, severing their relationship with their Creator.
No it didn't sever their relationship with their Creator. It certainly damaged that relationship, by it was not destroyed. Such thinking is the single biggest fallacy of the Calvinist/Reformed Theology, i.e., Total Depravity. It was not Adam's sin that caused the death of your spirit; it was your sin that caused you to be dead in trespasses and sins. It was because of your sin that you needed to be reborn; it was your spirit that needed to be reborn.
Nearly all of what followed is simply wrong because it is based upon your false belief that physical death is the wages paid for sin.
