Rescued from Adam's Fall

God made all the world perfect and good, with no animal or human death. It was a paradise! None of God's creatures killed another creature!

God placed man as His highest creation over all the rest of the creation, giving him dominion over the creation and commanding him to subdue it. God provided only vegetables and fruit for food to His all creatures.

Man's dominion was to be wise, non-violent, and benevolent. That's because man was made in God's image -- rational, spiritual, able to communicate with God, and most loved by God.

But when Adam sinned, this all came crashing down. Thus, when Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, instantly they were spiritually dead, and physically, corruption set in, and dying soon they would be dead.

They were both alienated and ashamed to be seen by God in their naked and disobedient characters, so they hid themselves from His presence.

God pronounced several curses, which are but samples of the full consequences of the punishment of death upon Adam, all his descendants, and the creatures God had placed him as head over.

But things soon grew much worse. The first man born in this world murdered his own brother in cold blood!

Why? Because Adam was our representative before God. His rebellion was seen as a rebellion of the whole creation against God, which Adam represented. Adam was made in God's image, given God's command, and appointed by God to represent the creation.

In man's fall, the whole world fell, and became subject to pain, sorrow, destruction, vanity, hopelessness, brokenness, and death.

But the Holy Ghost works in believers unto our glorification! That glory will far exceed the sorrow & pain of our sufferings here.