2/23/12- The Fall of Human Beings

2- 2/23- WSC 13- Did our first parents stay as they were created?
A. Left to the freedom of their own wills, our first parents sinned against God and fell from their original condition.

⁶ When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. ⁷ Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.  ⁸ Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. ⁹ But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”  (Genesis 3:6-8)

Thoughts: Sin and temptation appear pleasing, but the consequences of it bite us in the end.  Once they had joy and real fellowship with God, but their sin broke their fellowship and ours as well.  They went from provision and joy to having to work by the sweat of their brow and fearing the presence of God.  This sin was the drop of poison in the bucket that made all the water bad.  God still asks us, “Where are you?”  He longs for fellowship with us, but now our natural inclination is to avoid Him or hide from Him.

Prayer: Give us grace, Lord, to resist the temptation we face.  Give us a deeper desire for you than a desire for sin.

(Adam and Eve Bible book painting- anonymous)

1986 MOD TRANSL Q. 13. Did our first parents remain as they were created?

A. Left to the freedom of their own wills, our first parents sinned against God and fell from their

original condition.

WSC 1647 Q. 13. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
A. Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.