It's Your Fault People Are Homosexual

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One guy explained it like this:

The Judicial View: According to this position, all persons were “made sinners” and “made righteous” in the same sense—judicially. That is, both Christ and Adam were our legal representatives. And while in Adam all his race were before God made sinners officially, nonetheless, in Christ all are officially made righteous, though not actually and personally. And just as every person, when they come to the age of accountability (see comments on 2 Sam. 12:23 and Rom. 5:14), must personally sin to be personally guilty, even so everyone must personally accept Christ to be personally saved. Christ removed the official and judicial guilt that was imputed to the race because of Adam’s sin. This does not mean that everyone is actually saved, but only that they are no longer legally condemned.

I think this seems to be more correct. There seems to be a parallel between our position in Christ and in Adam. Paul said he was alive without (apart from) the law at one point, and when he was presented with the commandment he sinned. I think this refers to being come to the age of accountability. Jews were not considered to be under law until bar-mitzvah or bat-mitzvah. I think this is what Paul referred to. And this plays into the overall question. Our baptisms are like the counterpart of bar-mitzvah.