FALL
OF MAN; MAN: ALIENATION FROM GOD

When man fell through sin, he began to think of himself as having a soul instead of being one. It makes a lot of difference whether a man believes that he is a body having a soul or a soul having a body!

For the moral “unlikeness” between man and God the Bible has a word—alienation. The Holy Spirit presents a frightful picture of this alienation as it works itself out in human character. Fallen human nature is precisely opposite to the nature of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Because there is no moral likeness there is no communion, hence the feeling that God is far away in space.

Isaiah 29:13; Matthew 15:8; Ephesians 2:1–3, 19–20

Echoes from Eden, 5, 6.