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The beginning of Sin and Mankind Destani Harris Grand Canyon University
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(Gen 3:2) “The women said to the serpent, “We may eat 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.” Knowing what God say’s and doing it is two different things. Eve ate of the apple and so did Adam knowing that God had said not to. The devil lurked around them causing doubt in their minds and they did not resist him, they ate and sinned against the Lord.
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The definition of sin out of the Oxford English Dictionary is: A transgression of the
divine law and an offense against God; A violation willful or deliberate of some religious or moral principle. A term used mainly in a religious context to describe an act that violates a moral rule, or the state of having committed such a violation. The Life Applications Study Bible defines sin as: Violation of conscience or of divine law; missing the mark; falling short of God’s perfect standard. The wages of sin is death, but God has given us a chance of eternal life through His Son Jesus, our Lord. The sins of Adam and Eve were the beginning and it spread to the generations to follow, Adam and Eve had a son named Cain and later had Abel. Cain grew jealous of Abel during an offering that was taken to God, and when God told him to fix his mistake and try again, Cain did not God’s request to fix his sin and he let his emotions take over what he should have done. He took his brother Abel’s life and killed him; when killed; he was replaced by Seth who would be the leader of a line of God’s faithful people (Genesis 5:629). Sin is work in our human nature because Adam sinned against God. (Genesis 2:1617) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Genesis 3:2) “The women said to the serpent, “We may eat 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.” (Romans
Beginning of Sin 4 5:12, 14) Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned (14) death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. The Scriptures tell us that because of the very first human sin we all were born into sin but Jesus came and restored and forgave the sins of those who will believe on Him. Adam’s sin of pride results in death and the inability not to sin for himself and descendants. Eve is blamed with sending Adam to his fall. “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”(Genesis 3:15). After many generations, sin started to become part of the world. It was always present in mankind from the fall of man, but everyone except Noah ignored God and relied on their own efforts in life. And because of this, God would “not contend with man forever” (Genesis 6:3). The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. So the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.” (Genesis 6:57) This is a powerful because it shows how sins’ bloodline survived even the flood in the daughters of man. In Noah’s other son Ham, the nature of sin was revealed when he disrespected his father by not covering his nakedness while he lay drunk. From that act of sin, Ham was cursed by his father, (Genesis 9:25).
Beginning of Sin 5 Upon wiping out all of mankind except for Noah and his family, God gives us mercy and He promises never again to “destroy all living creatures” (Genesis 8:21). Noah’s simple act of making an offering to God after the flood pleases Him so much that He no longer wants to destroy man “even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood” (Genesis 8:21).
The tower of Babel shows the proud efforts of man as they tried to make a name for themselves and tried to unite without God. Through their own efforts they tried to reach heaven through the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:4). What’s funny or ironic about this is that God had to come down to see it. (Genesis 11:5)
Now through Him, living on the inside of us, we have the ability to live at a level that supercedes the Law of Sin and Death. We now have in us the voice of Love, kindness, peace and joy on the inside of us. Although we cause God to grieve the day of our creation, through His grace He is still willing to forgive us. Mankind’s own attempts to unify will never triumph as can be seen from the Tower of Babel. The spread of sin shows us that the only way we can truly unite is in God; But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Becoming born again is accepting the price that Jesus has made on our behalf on the cross, and accepting the forgiveness given us as a gift because of Jesus. Now we are no longer bound by sin.
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Beginning of Sin 7 References Oxford English Dictionary. (2009, July 3) In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford_English_Dictionary&oldid=300124963 Tyndale House Publishers, Inc and Zondervan. (2005) Life Application Study Bible. Carol Stream, IL and Grand Rapids, MI Tulloch, John, 1823-1886. The Christian doctrine of sin. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & co, [1876]
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