The fall part 2

from Mike Leake

Last week I started off with the angst of the fall and sin’s effects on our lives. Each of us knows deep in our hearts that the way the world works is not things should be. The present state of affairs is not the ideal state of affairs. Our very recognition of death as bad and mourning those who have died points to the intrinsic knowledge that there is something greater and that death is our enemy. Indeed, in the Garden death was not the guaranteed end of all men. That is, until the Fall.

In The Garden

In Genesis we begin with an explosion of creation by God. The Earth, the heavens, the multitude of stars including our sun, are spoken into existence by the omnipotent will of God. All plants and animals spring forth at the word of God. The Earth is now teeming with life! This good land is ripe for a caretaker. Into this creation, which God has called good, God creates mankind. He forms man from the dust and personally breathes life into him. “Adam,” as he is called, had a purpose. Genesis 2:15 says that man was placed in the Garden of Eden to work and keep the garden.

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