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What we believe and teach - Man and sin - |
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Man was
made by God on the sixth day. God formed man from the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. God
made man in His image and likeness. After God made man (Adam), He made a
woman (Eve) from a rib He had taken out of the man and He brought her to the
man. God put man in the Garden of Eden, which was in the East. In that Garden
were all kinds of trees, trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for
food, but God commanded man not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, for in the day that he would eat of it he would surely die. But
Adam disobeyed God, for he ate from that tree, and in that day he died
spiritually, just as God had said to him. By that disobedience sin entered
the world and spread to all men, who are therefore sinners, slaves of various
lusts and pleasures. Men give themselves over to evil, and the imagination of
man’s heart is evil from his youth. There is no one who does good, no, not
one; there is no one who seeks after God, there is no fear of God before
their eyes. Therefore men are under God’s condemnation. They are on the way
which leads to destruction. |