3/26/2023 0 Comments The fall o fman![]() But Satan questions and belittles God’s words to her. God was unmistakably clear about the way it would go if she rejected His will. He offered a different version of what would happen if she rejected the will of her Creator. To lure her away from devotion to the Creator, Satan called into doubt her way of looking at life and God. Her understanding to this point was based on the way her Maker explained things to her husband (Adam). He suggested to the woman (Eve) an alternative way of looking at reality. This is part of what happened when humans originally rejected their Creator’s will. It began with a competing truth-claim – a different way of seeing life and God (Genesis 3:1-6).Īn offer was made by a being identified later in Scripture as Satan. The one who changes his beliefs is likely preparing to change the way he lives. 7 specific consequences from the fall of humanity correspond significantly with 7 majors at our universities.In our fallen world, nakedness is a source of shame, which was not an emotion felt in the perfect Garden. God told Adam that he would return to the dust from which he was taken, as would all of his descendants.Īnd finally, because of the loss of innocence, man would be required to walk before God clothed. If we continue reading in Genesis we learn the third consequence of the fall: that the ground inside and outside of the Garden was cursed. In the Garden, Adam and Eve were able to talk to God, but after eating the fruit "God banished from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken" (Genesis 3:23). When Adam and Eve disobeyed God's commandment they lost their righteousness.Ī second effect was a physical separation from God. The first major effect, which we have talked about already, is that man became able to sin. In the most simple terms, Adam's fall made it so that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23) even though the initial sin wasn't our own, we are now able to to sin and therefore must die a mortal death in order to fulfill God's plan for us. It can be frustrating to understand why those of us on Earth now must still endure the punishments that Adam and Eve received when they sinned in the Garden. God didn't create beings that had sinned, but when Adam and Eve disobeyed His commandments they fell from their state of innocence and thus fell into a state of mortality where sin was possible. God returns to the garden to speak with Adam and Eve, but they "hid from the Lord among the trees of the garden" (Genesis 3:8) because their changed state allowed them to understand their sin. After they partook of the fruit, we learn that "the eyes of both of them were opened" (Genesis 3:7) and they understood their nakedness and guilt. In the Garden of Eden, God commanded Adam "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die." (Genesis 2:16-17).Īdam and Eve eventually both did partake of the fruit. I think studying these three attributes of The Fall can help anybody understand a little more about the event. I don't think it's something that can fully be understood in a single study session, but I wanted to try and talk through the basics. The Fall of Man is a complicated and crucial part of Christianity.
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