Inconsistency and God's Law

Question: You say that our actions cannot be labelled as sinful because we are not born with an inherited fallen nature by which to classify our natural desires as such. But what if God's law applies to us individually, regardless of whether or not the fall of man actually occured, and that Christ died for each of us for our own transgressions of God's law?

Answer: Firstly, we need to understand the nature of what is being declared as God's law. God's law is to be understood as a reflection of his morality and holiness. Now, if the foundational moral system of the Bible is based on a falsehood, what further credibility should I give to claims about God's law applying in spite of it's foundational falsehood? But let me indulge in the question.
If there is no basis for God's law applying to each and every one of us, in other words, God's law is right because He is holy and just, then that is arbitrary. It is simply, as Hitchens puts it, a celestial dictatorship. It is because it is because it is.
This is to say that homosexuality for example would be immoral, even if it were not the result of Adam's sin, because God sees it as such.
However thankfully that is not the way the Bible works. It is explicit in it's claims that we feels these desires and lusts due to the original sin in which we are born. Our nature was corrupted by sin.
If Adam didn't exist, then the Bible's claims about homosexuality, or sexual lust, or loving the wrong person, are inconsistent, because it claims that they are the result of being born with a fallen nature. If lust etc, are the result of a sinful nature, why then do they exist if we do not actually have a sinful nature?
This leaves no room for God to arbitrarily declare these acts sinful, without a sin nature being inherited.
Your standpoint would imply that even though the cause of sinfulness never happened, the result of sinfulness still follows.

So could God's law apply even though we aren't born inherently sinful? Sure, but it would be inconsistent with His own word, and God by definition cannot be an inconsistent being.

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