When Adam committed sin of disobedience. He was immediately Judged by God. The Judgement was Thou shall die.. Adam passed this judgement on all his unborn children. The judgement was connected with the sin of Adam. We all will die not because Adam ate the fruit of knowleadge but because Adam did not have the opportunity to eat the fruit of life. However the fruit of knowleadge had since then become a snare to the whole human race because it exposed us to always choose between evil and good