What is your understanding of the consequences of Adam's sin?
I am continually surprised by the number of Christians who deny original sin, biblically defined, or misunderstand it.
There are groups that specialize in this (Pelagians and the followers of Charles Finney in particular), however many normal, run of the mill Christians don't really seem to understand the chaos and disruption caused by Adam's sin. And, still others claim that every man is a "fresh Adam" and needs to sin himself before he is accounted as a sinner in God's sight. A simple reading of Romans 5 would refute this notion.
In my opinion, if someone denies original sin, they really can't understand the Bible very well.
Romans 5:15-21 15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. 16 And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. 17 For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. 18 Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. 19 For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous. 20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
(ESV)
No person is responsible for another person's sin, and they are not guilty of another person's sin.
If your father stole a car before you were born does it come upon you and you are guilty of it when you are born.
That does not make sense.
Adam and Eve's sin does not come upon anybody else for that is their sin not anybody else's sin, so we are not born with original sin upon us.
Adam and Eve were created knowing God, and it would of never entered their mind to eat of the tree unless an outside source tempted them.
So God allowed Satan to tempt Eve and she said they could not eat of the tree for that is all she knew and could think.
So Satan tempted her with an alternate reality that God did not tell them that if she ate of the tree that she would be like god knowing good and evil, and she sinned.
Then Eve was the outside source that tempted Adam by showing him she did not die and nothing bad happened to her, and he sinned.
Then they had a choice between good and evil from then on.
So all of their offspring is born with a choice and Eve is the mother of all living so it covers everybody.
Since we are born with a choice between good and evil we are born not knowing God so we will do wrong before we come to God and repent of our sins, so everybody is a sinner in need of salvation.
But we are born innocent with no sin on our record until we sin because the sin of Adam and Eve does not come upon us.
Which is why the Bible says that the angels always behold the face of the Father for the little ones, which they are protected spiritually during the time before accountability, and angels are ministering spirits to the saints those with an innocent nature which would include babies and small children.
For the Bible says all have sinned, done the act, not born with it, and fall short of the glory of God.
Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
It is not original sin as Adam and Eve's sin that comes upon us as that individual sin they did, but death came upon us who have not sinned according to their sin, testifying that their sin does not come upon us.
Unless you mean the consequences of sin coming upon all people, and not their sin they did coming upon them that makes them guilty.
Because when they say we are born with original sin it seems like they are saying that the sin of Adam and Eve comes upon us, which it does not for that is their sin.