Study of Theology

INTRODUCTION

During my study of Theology, I see a correlation between the fall of man and presumptuous sin. It is important for Christians to know the state of our fallen human nature and know that God has communicated to us the way to eternal life. The sin of pride caused by our first parents brought sin and death into our world. However, God chose to work with man in his sin and through history has shown man how to move back towards the relationship God has always willed for man. In the fullness of time God gave us the fullness of His revelation and the means by which man could reconcile himself with God. I will first look at the fall of man through the sin of Adam and then the seriousness of presumptuous sin.

FALL OF MAN

THEOLOGICAL DEFINITION

“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me” (Psalm 51:7). This Psalm reveals to us that by and through the primeval event of Adam’s sin of pride caused Adam and all of humanity to be out of joint with God’s purpose for creation. In this sin, Adam lost for himself and his human progeny, grace and his unique friendship with God. Theology has taught us that human nature, because of this sin, lacks the original balance it initially had. Therefore, man suffers from concupiscence; that propensity of human nature to sin. Unruly desires, such as pride, ambition and envy are insubordinate to the dictates of reason. Since the fall of man, there is in human nature a bias away from what is morally good toward what is wrong. His intellect has been darkened and his will weakened.

BIBLICAL FOUNDATION

Before the fall of man, at a time when God created everything, all “lived in a harmonious community with God, nature, and each other.” God’s idea of our world and how He saw everything to be perfect, changed instantly when Adam and Eve gave into their weaknesses and disobeyed God by falling into Satan’s deceiving trap of eating a fruit from a forbidden tree in which God...