God's Story: Implications of the Fall
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The Effects of the Fall
The Effects of the Fall
The fall brought upon humanity an inability not to sin and a corruption of all human actions and capacities along with alienation from God, suffering in this life, death itself, and the pain of hell forever.
HUMANITY IS CURSED
HUMANITY IS CURSED
Divine curses came into effect after the fall
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”
16 To the woman He said: “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you.”
17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.
18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field.
19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.”
29 And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord has cursed.”
21 And the Lord smelled a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
This curse refers to the flood; the curse of Ge 3:17 is not revoked here.
INABILITY TO CHANGE
INABILITY TO CHANGE
Humankind sins and is incapable to stop
Humankind sins and is incapable to stop
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!
Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? No one!
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
TOTAL CORRUPTION
TOTAL CORRUPTION
Every part of a person is affected by sin
THE HEART
THE HEART
9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?
5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
8 ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me.
19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
The Body
The Body
6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.
Human nature
Human nature
5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,
20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
ALIENATION FROM GOD
ALIENATION FROM GOD
2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.
29 The Lord is far from the wicked, But He hears the prayer of the righteous.
25 Your iniquities have turned these things away, And your sins have withheld good from you.
31 Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him.
BROUGHT SUFFERING
BROUGHT SUFFERING
16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
1 “Man who is born of woman Is of few days and full of trouble.
17 Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
23 For all his days are sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
BROUGHT DEATH
BROUGHT DEATH
12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,