In Romans 5 Paul seemed to be saying that something happened to all humanity because of Adam’s sin. That the entire race was affected—not by sinning themselves, but rather through the sin of Adam. These statements are very intriguing especially since they fly in the face of innumerable other verses that say exactly the opposite. However the emerging field of Epigenetics makes it not so hard to believe that Paul was more on target than even he could have realized. The ‘something’ that Paul referred to, could very well have been a physical change in Adam and Eve’s epigenome, which was then inherited by future generations. For what might be the most astounding scientific fact in the Bible,See Original Sin and Epigenetics
