he poured out his soul to the very death, and it was with the transgressors that he was counted in; and he himself carried the very sin of many people, and for the transgressors he proceeded to interpose.”​—Isa. 53:7, 12; Acts 8:30-35.

Isaiah’s prophecy just quoted speaks of sinners and transgressors. Now people in general do not like to be called sinners and transgressors. All the same, none of us can deny that we all have defects and tendencies toward wrongdoing. We got these things from somewhere. We can all lay the blame upon our parents. But they, in turn, got imperfection and wrongful tendencies from their parents. And so we can go back all the way in an unbroken chain to the first married couple, whom the Holy Bible calls Adam and Eve. The charging of parents with giving to their offspring imperfection and wrongful inclinations stops with Adam and Eve. Why so? Because Adam and Eve did not get their imperfection and sinfulness from God, their Creator and heavenly Father. “Perfect is his activity,” and he made Adam and Eve perfect, inasmuch as they were created in his own image.​—Deut. 32:4; Luke 3:38; Gen. 1:26-28.

13. What question arises as to the place of our birth, and what kept all of us from being born perfect?

¹³ For the past six thousand years, none of us were born in paradise, that is, in the Garden of Eden. But Adam and Eve were created and put there. (Gen. 2:7-25) Of course, that original earthly paradise would not be able to hold all of us comfortably today; it would have to be expanded to embrace all the globe. Still, why were we not all born in an earthly paradise of global size? Yes, and why were we all born imperfect, subject to bad tendencies, sickly and dying? The only reasonable explanation could be that the first human couple, from whom all of us descended, went wrong. Well, the true-to-fact historical record in the Holy Bible agrees with such a reasonable explanation. Before ever Adam and Eve had children they went wrong. This means that they did not do what God told them to do. They disobeyed him, their heavenly Father. Thus they sinned or aimed away from the mark of human perfection.