If something terrible happens to my grandparents would it affect me? If God told my great, great, great, great, great, great, (x2000 {just a random number}) grandparents NOT to get in the car and go down a certain road because the bridge was out – and they did it anyway – and died. Would it affect me? Of course it would. I would never have been born.
When Adam and Eve went down the wrong road and they died spiritually – it affected me. I was born spiritually dead. “Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned.” Romans 5:12 (HCSB) Not only was I affected by the sin of Adam – I now am born with the desire and nature to sin. I sin because I have inherited a sinful nature.