Expert: Jim Samoh - 8/9/2009

Question
THE bible says in Romans 3;23 that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God and rom.6;23 says for the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is life everlasting.
  Why does a baby,a child/infant die whereas babies are pure and perfect[matt.18;1-5],the wages of sin is death,so do babies have sins?original sins inherited?


Answer
This is a result of original sin, since through Adam sin entered the world.  The world is no longer perfect, and Sin is indeed inherited (see Exodus 20:5 "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;") Children are indeed pure and perfect, but they still live on a fallen world, though they do not die for their own sin.