man's fall into sin
Part 3 The Results for Man
Satan had lied. Adam and Eve did not become like God when they ate the forbidden fruit. Instead, they both became spiritually dead. They no longer had a human spirit—the invisible part that had made them spiritually alive and able to relate to God. Adam and Eve could no longer walk and talk with God. They could not understand or love God. Sin, like a great big wall, had come between them and God.
Moments before, they had known only God and His perfect provision. Now their entire being was corrupted by sin. They now had a nature of sin—a sin nature—throughout their entire bodies. Their eyes were opened to their sinfulness, and they could feel their sinful natures controlling them. They were ashamed of themselves, ridden with guilt and remorse, worried and restless. They were afraid of God. All they could do was hide from Him.
God watched the tragedy unfold yet never stopped loving them. In fact, He came into the Garden to look for them and save them from their sinfulness. First He had to pronounce a just sentence for their sin: the woman would bear children in pain, and the man would labor each day to survive among nature. Even the earth was cursed with thorns and thisles.
God could no longer allow them to live in the perfect paradise of Eden. Instead they would have to live in the world now ruled by Satan. Yes, when Adam decided to sin, he gave up his rulership of God's creation to the one who spoke through the serpent. That's how critical that decision was, not just for Adam and Eve but for all who followed. The entire human race would descend from the first couple—that means everyone would inherit the sin nature acquired at the Fall.
Adam, as the leader who clearly knew better, was named the responsible party. God's Word explains, "Just as through one man [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned" (Rom. 5:12). Because Adam sinned, we all sin. Because Adam fell from his state of perfection, the entire human race is "fallen."
Man's Fall Part 3
R. B. Thieme, Jr., Bible Ministries
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man's fall into sin
Part 3 The Results for Man
Satan had lied. Adam and Eve did not become like God when they ate the forbidden fruit. Instead, they both became spiritually dead. They no longer had a human spirit—the invisible part that had made them spiritually alive and able to relate to God. Adam and Eve could no longer walk and talk with God. They could not understand or love God. Sin, like a great big wall, had come between them and God.
Moments before, they had known only God and His perfect provision. Now their entire being was corrupted by sin. They now had a nature of sin—a sin nature—throughout their entire bodies. Their eyes were opened to their sinfulness, and they could feel their sinful natures controlling them. They were ashamed of themselves, ridden with guilt and remorse, worried and restless. They were afraid of God. All they could do was hide from Him.
God watched the tragedy unfold yet never stopped loving them. In fact, He came into the Garden to look for them and save them from their sinfulness. First He had to pronounce a just sentence for their sin: the woman would bear children in pain, and the man would labor each day to survive among nature. Even the earth was cursed with thorns and thisles.
God could no longer allow them to live in the perfect paradise of Eden. Instead they would have to live in the world now ruled by Satan. Yes, when Adam decided to sin, he gave up his rulership of God's creation to the one who spoke through the serpent. That's how critical that decision was, not just for Adam and Eve but for all who followed. The entire human race would descend from the first couple—that means everyone would inherit the sin nature acquired at the Fall.
Adam, as the leader who clearly knew better, was named the responsible party. God's Word explains, "Just as through one man [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned" (Rom. 5:12). Because Adam sinned, we all sin. Because Adam fell from his state of perfection, the entire human race is "fallen."