Part 3 — How did sin interfere?
God’s Eternal Plan - 3
The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too. At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.
Genesis 3:6-7
Man’s sin was a violent intrusion into God’s plan. Through sin, man became the natural target of God’s wrath, deserving eternal punishment and dismissal from God’s presence. By choosing independence from God, man broke the unity between himself, God, and the rest of humanity.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:23
However, the great consequence of Eve’s first sin is not only the disunity created between man and God, but also the shifting of human nature away from God’s image, and towards a sin nature, destined to be separated from God. Man’s nature was corrupted and the creature fell away from God’s ultimate plan of eternal relationship with His Creation.
When Adam and Eve first sinned, they not only corrupted themselves, but all of their offspring as well. The future of mankind was stained by the original sin, for Adam and Eve reproduced in their own image. (Genesis 5:3; Romans 5:12)
