FALL
OF MAN; SIN: PREVALENCE OF

By that moral disaster known in theology as the fall of man an entire order of beings was wrenched violently loose from its proper place in the creational scheme and quite literally turned upside down. Human beings who had been specifically created to admire and adore the Deity turned away from Him and began to pour out their love first upon themselves and then upon whatever cheap and tawdry objects their lusts and passions found. The first chapter of Romans describes the journey of the human heart downward from the knowledge of God to the basest idolatry and fleshly sins. History is little more than the story of man’s sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

Genesis 3; Romans 1; Ephesians 2:1–3

Born After Midnight, 124, 125.