So how can sin be passed from parent to child but not salvation?

Answer 1

Sin doesn't pass from parent to child. Are you confusing it with the expression that a parent's sin will be visited upon the child? A good example of that saying (which isn't religious) would be the parent who had an affair & a family broke up because of it. The child would suffer as a result of the parent's sin.

Answer 2

Sin is not ever passed from parent to child. If you heard this or read it in Scripture, you heard wrong, or read without understanding. You pay for your own sin. God would never blame a little child for what a parent does - he blames the parent.

Answer 3

it's passed from Adam to child.. We are born into sin because the first man sinned, not because our parents did. "Curses" are a different story. Salvation is a gift from God waiting to be accepted.

We are born into a sinful world as innocent babies.. That's why the Bible says that the innocent that die are saved (babies and people who have never heard the name of Jesus or his teachings)... Being 'born again' is basically getting that innocence again in order to heaven.

Christ covers our sin with a 'robe of righteousness'

Answer 4

I figure he logic will be that Salvation is a finite resource. But there's always lots of sin!

Should the government tax sin as part of the parent's estate?

Awesome question!

Answer 5

Sin is inherited. Salvation is a gift that must be received.

Answer 6

It is the sin nature, not the sin that is passed.

You will have to ask God about why it works that way. His universe, his rules.

Answer 7

God is not the author of sin, we are. We are not the author of salvation, God is.

Answer 8

But you can pass along bad genes, bad jeans, allergies to beans, and being lean!