Everything That is Sad, Painful, and Horrible

Everything in my world that is sad, painful, and horrible comes from the Fall.

- Adapted Excerpt from Comforting Hearts, Teaching Minds by Starr Meade

Where does my corrupt human nature come from? 

• It comes from the fall and disobedience of our first parents, 
• Adam and Eve, in Paradise.

The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made.  

• One day he asked the woman, "Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from and of the trees in the garden?"  
• Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden," the woman replied.  
• "It's only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat.  
• God said, 'You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.'" 

"You won't die!" the serpent replied to the woman.  

• "God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, 
• and you will be like God, 
• knowing both good and evil."

The woman was convinced.  

• She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, 
• and she wanted the wisdom it would give her.  
• So she took some of the fruit and ate it.  
• Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too.  Genesis 3:1-6

This fall has so poisoned our nature 

• that we are all conceived 
• and born in a sinful condition.

When Adam sinned, sin entered the world.  Adam's sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.   Romans 5:12

All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.  We have left God's paths to follow our own.  Isaiah 53:6a

For I was born a sinner - yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.  Psalm 51:5