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How Did The Fall Into Sin Affect Everyone's Human Nature?
Are you a parent? If so, have you ever let your toddler play on the floor with another toddler? After only a couple of minutes what happened? The two toddlers started fighting over a toy, right? There were all sorts of toys laying around for them to play with; yet in minutes one toddler wanted the toy that the other toddler had. You did not have to teach your toddler to be selfish and fight, did you? Of course not! Why, then, was he like that?
You live in this world. Have you ever had another person bite your head off? Have you ever gotten shoved around by pushy people in the store? Have you ever had someone rip you off? What do you hear about on the news? Murders? Robberies? Sexual abuse? Terrorists killing innocent people? Crimes of all kinds? Why do people do such things?
When God created his perfect world, the human race that he created was not like that. What happened? Sin entered into the world through the fall into sin. In the persons of Adam and Eve the whole human race fell into sin and became sinful. And sinful people produce sinful children, as our Lord Jesus also stated in John 3:6, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh.” And Scripture reports in Genesis 5:3 that this is just what happened; sinful Adam had a sinful son. “When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, then he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his own image, and he called his name Seth.” And from generation to generation ever since then the sinful nature that started with Adam and Eve was passed on through the parents to their children. Accordingly, David wrote in Psalm 51:5, “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.” From the moment of conception all people are already sinful by nature. This is called original, inherited, or natural sin.
What is that human sinful nature like? Romans 7:18 states, “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is in my flesh.” The sinful nature of human beings is totally corrupt and morally wicked; there is nothing good in it. After the flood this is how God himself assessed the sinful human nature that was passed on from Adam: “. . . the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his childhood.” The sinful nature of human beings is inclined only to doing evil all of the time from the time they are infants.
So how did the fall into sin affect everyone’s human nature? It made everyone’s human nature sinful, totally corrupt, and inclined only toward evil all of the time. Is it any wonder, then, that you are confronted with people’s hurtful words and evil behavior?
You live in this world. Have you ever had another person bite your head off? Have you ever gotten shoved around by pushy people in the store? Have you ever had someone rip you off? What do you hear about on the news? Murders? Robberies? Sexual abuse? Terrorists killing innocent people? Crimes of all kinds? Why do people do such things?
When God created his perfect world, the human race that he created was not like that. What happened? Sin entered into the world through the fall into sin. In the persons of Adam and Eve the whole human race fell into sin and became sinful. And sinful people produce sinful children, as our Lord Jesus also stated in John 3:6, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh.” And Scripture reports in Genesis 5:3 that this is just what happened; sinful Adam had a sinful son. “When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, then he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his own image, and he called his name Seth.” And from generation to generation ever since then the sinful nature that started with Adam and Eve was passed on through the parents to their children. Accordingly, David wrote in Psalm 51:5, “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.” From the moment of conception all people are already sinful by nature. This is called original, inherited, or natural sin.
What is that human sinful nature like? Romans 7:18 states, “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is in my flesh.” The sinful nature of human beings is totally corrupt and morally wicked; there is nothing good in it. After the flood this is how God himself assessed the sinful human nature that was passed on from Adam: “. . . the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his childhood.” The sinful nature of human beings is inclined only to doing evil all of the time from the time they are infants.
So how did the fall into sin affect everyone’s human nature? It made everyone’s human nature sinful, totally corrupt, and inclined only toward evil all of the time. Is it any wonder, then, that you are confronted with people’s hurtful words and evil behavior?
