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”Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned— (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.) Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous. Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.“What was finished was his personal suicide mission, which he had foretold at eg Mark 2:20. The Kingdom was NOT established on earth, the Son of Man had NOT come to run the show. That "the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23) comes from Paul's adoption of a trope apparently originating in the Jewish quarter in Alexandria, who around the end of the 2nd century BCE in the course of practicing midrash came up with the notion that Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden because they'd sinned. It was a tale seized on by Augustine of Hippo around 400 CE who made it popular, as I may have mentioned.
But you've read the Garden story in Genesis, so you already know that nowhere does it mention sin, the Fall of Man, death entering the world, spiritual death, or anything of the kind. Instead, as you'll also know, God states [his] only reasons for expelling them from the Garden in Genesis 3:22-3, namely to protect [his] own position. It will also have struck you that at the time Eve and Adam respectively ate the fruit, God had denied them knowledge of good and evil ─ hence it was impossible for them to form an intention to do wrong, hence impossible for them to sin.
And did I already mention Ezekiel 18:20, where it says very clearly that sin can't be inherited, hence the concept of original sin is not only non-biblical but by bible standards is nonsense anyway.
Romans 5:12-21 NKJV