Why Am I Judged for Adam’s Sin?

Answers with Ken Ham

This is Ken Ham, author, speaker, and blogger on science and the Bible’s reliability.

God’s original creation was “very good,” but Adam’s sin broke it, ushering in death, the consequence for sin. But some people wonder, why do we all die for something our great-great-great-grandfather did?

Well, the Bible teaches that we sinned in Adam because we were in the body of our ancestor when he sinned. Now each of us has a sin nature and we all act on it. So we aren’t judged for Adam’s sin—we’re actually judged for our own! But it’s because of his sin that we now have a sin nature.

But just as one man’s sin brought death to all, one man’s death brings life to all. Jesus’ death and resurrection offers us eternal life!

Dig Deeper

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