Romans 5:12

"Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned": "Therefore": " The section which now follows summarizes the situation facing all people. Paul is setting us up for. comparison. Adam becomes one way for the race and Jesus another. 'In Adam' there is only condemnation and spiritual death, and 'in Christ' there is acquittal and life eternal."

"As through one man sin entered": Paul states that the woman (Eve) was deceived, and fell into transgression (1 Timothy 2:14). Some speculate that Adam may have indeed sinned first, by standing idly by and allowing his wife to be deceived (Genesis 3:6 " she gave also to her husband with her " Romans 3:16-17).

"Death through sin": It appears that the death under consideration in these verses is spiritual death (Romans 5:15). Besides, this death passed on to all men because all sinned. Babies die physically, and it has nothing to do with their being sinners (1 Corinthians 14:20). "For that all sinned" -"because all sinned" (NASV). Adam's descendants died spiritually, because, like their ancestor, they also sinned. POINT TO NOTE: Calvinists believe that all sinned, because all have inherited the guilt of Adam's sin. It would seem unnecessary for Paul to quote all those texts in Romans 3:9 to prove the Jew was dead in sin if he (and they) believed that they were all born dead because they had sinned in Adam's sin. We have all followed Adam's ways; we all made the kind of choice he made.