If You Told Your Little Girl to Fly to the Moon...

From The Good News We Almost Forgot by Kevin DeYoung:

• If you told your eight-year-old girl to fly to the moon and she didn't get more than four inches off the ground, you wouldn't spank her, would you?  
• If you did, you'd be a pretty rotten parent.  
• In fact, your friends would ask, "Why in the world are you commanding your daughter to fly to the moon anyway?" 

From the Heidelberg Catechism Day 4:

Q. But does not God do man an injustice by requiring in His law what man cannot do? 

A. No, for God so created man that he was able to do it. 

• Genesis 1:31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

But man, at the instigation of the devil, 

• Genesis 3:13 And the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” 
• John 8:44 “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” 
• 1 Timothy 2:13,14 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.

in deliberate disobedience 

• Genesis 3:6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

robbed himself and all his descendants of these gifts.

• Romans 5:12,18,19 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned, …Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.

From The Good News We Almost Forgot by Kevin DeYoung:

• Sin came into the world through Adam.  
• Death came as a result of that sin.  
• And death spread to everyone else in the human race 
• because everyone else in the human race sinned in Adam at that moment in Eden in Genesis 3.