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God created man in His image, innocent and sinless.
Man voluntarily chose to disobey God, and through
Adam’s sin, all men are sinners by both nature and
choice, spiritually dead and separated from God, and
without Christ, incapable of restoring their
relationship with God.
Genesis 1:26
26 Then God said, “Let
Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and
let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the
birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the
earth.”
Genesis 3:1-24
1 Now the serpent was
more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD
God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has
God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the
garden’?” 2 The woman
said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of
the garden we may eat; 3 but
from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the
garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or
touch it, or you will die.’” 4 The
serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die! 5 “For
God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will
be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and
evil.” 6 When the woman
saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a
delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to
make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she
gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then
the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that
they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and
made themselves loin coverings.
8 They heard the sound of
the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the
day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the
presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 Then
the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where
are you?” 10 He said,
“I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was
afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.” 11 And
He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you
eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
12 The man said, “The
woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the
tree, and I ate.” 13 Then
the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have
done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me,
and I ate.” 14 The LORD
God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
Cursed are you more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you will go,
And dust you will eat
All the days of your life;
15 And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”
16 To the woman He
said,
“I will greatly multiply
Your pain in childbirth,
In pain you will bring forth children;
Yet your desire will be for your husband,
And he will rule over you.”
17 Then to Adam He
said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your
wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I
commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;
Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.
18 “Both thorns and thistles it
shall grow for you;
And you will eat the plants of the field;
19 By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”
20 Now the man called
his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all
the living. 21 The LORD
God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and
clothed them.
22 Then the LORD God said,
“Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing
good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand,
and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live
forever”— 23 therefore
the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to
cultivate the ground from which he was taken. 24 So
He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of
Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword
which turned every direction to guard the way to the
tree of life.
Romans 3:10-18
10 as it is
written,
“THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;
11 THERE IS NONE WHO
UNDERSTANDS,
THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD;
12 ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER
THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS;
THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD,
THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE.”
13 “THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN
GRAVE,
WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING,”
“THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS”;
14 “WHOSE MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING
AND BITTERNESS”;
15 “THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED
BLOOD,
16 DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN
THEIR PATHS,
17 AND THE PATH OF PEACE THEY HAVE
NOT KNOWN.”
18 “THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE
THEIR EYES.”
Romans 3:23
23 for all have sinned
and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 5:12
12 Therefore, just as
through one man sin entered into the world, and death
through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all
sinned
Ephesians 2:1-3
2:1 And you were dead
in your trespasses and sins, 2 in
which you formerly walked according to the course of
this world, according to the prince of the power of the
air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of
disobedience. 3 Among
them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our
flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the
mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the
rest.
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