What I believe part 5
God made man upright. He was both material and spiritual and possessed of a divine life, and made in the image of God. He could hold communion with God, with all that is divine, as well as the material universe. He was made but a little lower than the angels, and was crowned with glory and honor and had dominion over the works of God's hands in the earth. He was a companion of his Father and Creator, capable of admiring, adoring and enjoying God. While he was material and possessed an animal nature, as he came from the hands of God, yet he was an intellectual, moral, pure and holy being. He was placed under law with life and death before him.
Since both Adam and Eve had a free will, they had a right to serve or rebel against God just like the angels. Adam rebelled. Sin was born on the earth. The glory of the Lord departed from him and he fell. The stream of humanity is polluted at its source because the first pair was contaminated. Their descendants of necessity were in their image fallen and depraved. By one man sin entered into the world and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. Our nature sinned in Adam and the stream became polluted at the fountain head. This depravity became universal or all the faculties and powers of the soul and body were brought under the power of evil. |
