Thursday, January 15, 2009

What is meant by the "fall of man"?

Q. 13. Did our first parents continue in the estate for which they were created?
A. Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate for which they were created, by sinning against God. http://www.aplacefortruth.org/Gen1_26_28pt1.htm

Genesis 3:2-6. The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, "You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die."
"You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be oppened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desireable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 3:16-19. To the woman he said,"I will increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of you life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat you food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

Adam and Eve sinned and thus experienced the results of sin. Alienation from God and his paradise were first in their terrible deprivations (Gen. 3: 22-24). Many of the original consequences of the sin of the first parents have come upon all men (Gen. 3: 16-19).... Adam did introduce sin into the world, though, and thus create an environment in which sin could prosper (Rom. 5: 12 ff.)http://bibletruths.net/archives/BTAR047.htm

Quote: In Adam's fall/We sinned all. from 'The New England Primer', http://www.soak.com/topic/quotes/articles/tshow/16786/adams+fall

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