Not just DNA but our sinful spiritual nature as well.

I am referring to what you say that the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father but then the son is still guilty.

How can the child be guilty it does not carry the guilt of the parents

asygo - do you believe in dualism? That there is something in us that is separate and independent of the body?

Yes, we must be "born again".

Excellent thought there, MM. But what, in practical terms, does it mean to "partake of the Divine nature"?

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Oh, I see what you mean. Thank you for clarifying. As I read it, the son is guilty of his own sin. "All have sinned." "The soul that sinneth, it shall die . . . the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him."

Romans
3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
3:11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Perhaps it part of the "mystery of godliness". Somehow Jesus empowers us from within to resist the unholy clamorings of sinful flesh and to act out the fruits of the Spirit. Not sure how it works in practical terms but in the real world it means we are able to imitate Jesus' holy example of obedience. We can experience it but we can't explain it.

"When the heart yields to the influence of the Spirit of God, the conscience will be quickened, and the sinner will discern something of the depth and sacredness of God's holy law, the foundation of His government in heaven and on earth. The "Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world," illumines the secret chambers of the soul, and the hidden things of darkness are made manifest. John 1:9. Conviction takes hold upon the mind and heart. The sinner has a sense of the righteousness of Jehovah and feels the terror of appearing, in his own guilt and uncleanness, before the Searcher of hearts. He sees the love of God, the beauty of holiness, the joy of purity; he longs to be cleansed and to be restored to communion with Heaven. {SC 24.2}

"Christ manifested a love that is incomprehensible; and as the sinner beholds this love, it softens the heart, impresses the mind, and inspires contrition in the soul. {SC 26.4}

He is speaking to the hearts of men and creating an inexpressible craving for something they have not. The things of the world cannot satisfy their longing. The Spirit of God is pleading with them to seek for those things that alone can give peace and rest--the grace of Christ, the joy of holiness. Through influences seen and unseen, our Saviour is constantly at work to attract the minds of men from the unsatisfying pleasures of sin to the infinite blessings that may be theirs in Him. To all these souls, who are vainly seeking to drink from the broken cisterns of this world, the divine message is addressed, "Let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Revelation 22:17. {SC 28.1}

But let none deceive themselves with the thought that God, in His great love and mercy, will yet save even the rejecters of His grace. The exceeding sinfulness of sin can be estimated only in the light of the cross. When men urge that God is too good to cast off the sinner, let them look to Calvary. It was because there was no other way in which man could be saved, because without this sacrifice it was impossible for the human race to escape from the defiling power of sin, and be restored to communion with holy beings,--impossible for them again to become partakers
of spiritual life,--it was because of this that Christ took upon Himself the guilt of the disobedient and suffered in the sinner's stead. The love and suffering and death of the Son of God all testify to the terrible enormity of sin and declare that there is no escape from its power, no hope of the higher life, but through the submission of the soul to Christ. {SC 31.2}

John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
That seems to suggest people were already born condemned, Christ didn't come to condemn, He came because they were already condemned and His mission was to save them -- release them from this condemnation.
3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Now we see a line drawn between the condemned and the redeemed.
Those who take hold, by faith, believing and trusting Jesus Christ are not condemned.

3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Those condemned remain so, because the light of truth and redemption came, but they rejected it.

3:21 But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Love of truth -- come to the light find truth in Jesus.

In the darkness is the
Romans 2:10 deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.