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Originally Posted by SerenityLives
I also wonder why all of humanity is judged based on the actions of A and E. Here is a thought experiment: if God created Eve and Eve, would Christians today frown on straight couples? If Adam and Eve were black, you get my point. No diversity in the Garden of Eden so how do we know which aspects were there before or after the fall? How do we know gayness was an attribute before or after the fall?
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Good questions, and I don't know that I understand all the answers fully, so hopefully others will jump in.
So for your first question of why all are judged because of Adam/Eve's disobedience . . . one answer is because we were all in Adam as a corporate man. We may not think this is fair, because we technically weren't individuals yet. But let's say that we were present in Adam. In that case we all did it. Again, you may say this is not fair, because you should have had an individual voice in the matter. But again, in a corporate sense, we were all there. Kinda hard to conceive of this as the individuals we are now, and we can cry, "It's not fair!", but there it is.
However, on the plus side of this corporate aspect is who we are in Christ. Because of one Man's (Christ's) righteous act, the many are constituted righteous. (Romans 5) How does this happen exactly? It's hard to fathom, but God, when we have faith in Christ, puts us in Him and imputes His righteousness to us! So I might not agree that through the disobedience of the one man (Adam), sin and death came in - but I surely like the fact that the Father sees me as the righteousness of God in Christ because of His one righteous act!
The other idea, that some on here argue against, is that something not intended for man got into mankind through the eating of the forbidden fruit ("in eating it you will die"), and this corruption was passed along. But I'll leave that idea for now, so as not to continue that sidebar.
I thought the second question would be perhaps more difficult to answer because it's a hypothetical, then again, maybe not. One can easily conjecture that since God created beings of the opposite sex, that was his intention all along.