Then what are you saying?
From what I read you believe in original sin, am I right?
Again, I am Sorry.
The doctrine of “Original Sin” is false, at least in the way you might be thinking about it, basically for the very reasons you so expertly stated.
Perhaps we agree on this point. I don’t know.
Hopefully we do.
Anyway...
We were discussing the killing of Jesus. And I did attempt to, but failed, to say that no one alive today can ever be held personally responsible for that.
Separately...
The doctrine of “Original Sin” is not about that event.
That doctrine is about Adam and Eve’s Sin in willfully disobeying God to His face in the Garden of Eden.
And the teaching on that varies.
I would suggest that no one alive today can ever be held personally responsible for that event either. Again, because of the very reasons you provided so well. If that is taught, I would personally regard that as a falsehood.
But it is more complex than what I just said. Because of the complexity and consequences of that singular event.
If the account is true, then Adam and the very beautiful Eve, were also cast out of the Garden, away from the intimate presence of God. And it is figuratively described as “death”, to be separated from God. Because that condition is so terrible.
In Adam we all died, or in other words, in Adam we were all as a race separated from direct personal intimacy with God.
We are not all guilty of committing Adam and Eve’s Sin. Only they are, but we do have to live with the consequences of what they did.
In the same way, you also may have to live with the consequences of some of the bad decisions your parents, or someone else has made, even though you are completely innocent yourself. It is just how life works.
And, some Christians would probably call me a heretic for saying that! And we could start a verbal war right here and now.
They can be really ugly and nasty folk, or sweet as strawberry pie.
All I can do is tell you what I think, nothing more.
By the way...
This means that children are truly innocent and guiltless when they are born.
Which, of course, they certainly are!!!