Fall
If God made everything so seamlessly why, does life often feel like it’s unraveling? Every time a baby cries, every time a relationship is torn apart, every time a loved one slips away, we feel it. Though this world is beautiful it’s clearly broken. But why?
God is love. And as our loving King, He invited the first humans into relationship with Himself. Yet, rather than humbly love and worship God they were tempted by Satan--personified evil--to turn on God instead. By eating of Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil they broke relationship with the Creator. When they reached for the fruit they reached for the crown and took hold of the lie that they could be their own gods, defining good and evil for themselves. And here's the reality: humans make terrible gods. From that moment on, all that we were made to be was fractured by that Fall. By dismissing God’s ways we disintegrated ourselves. Sin ruins relationships and uproots us from purpose.
By dismissing God’s ways we disintegrated ourselves. Sin ruins relationships and uproots us from purpose.
The tragic result is that every human being thereafter was plunged into sin and death in Adam. By nature and choice, we all embrace sin as He did. We are all born both beautiful and broken because we are all marred, and contorted by sin. This doesn’t mean that we are as bad as we could possibly be, but it does mean that every part of our being is affected and infected by sin. Sin injured everything.
As if it weren’t bad enough that sin harmed our humanness, the creation itself was cracked. The cosmos were corrupted when we sank into sin. (Romans 8:19-21). We feel the effects of sin both within us and all around us. When relationships hurt, when our bodies break, when things fall apart we feel it: The Fall of Man.
So, we groan, “What can be done?” This question is asked by the story of Scripture itself, and the only answer that can be found is Jesus.
Genesis 3:1-6, Genesis 3:15-19, Genesis 5:29, Psalm 51:5, Proverbs 30:4, Jeremiah 17:9, Matthew 15:19, John 8:44, Romans 3:23, Romans 5:12-21, Romans 6:23, Romans 8:18-24,1 Corinthians 2:14, 1 Corinthians 15:22, 1 Corinthians 15:45, 2 Corinthians 4:4, 2 Corinthians 11:3, Ephesians 4:18
