Authored by Micheal Ewing on behalf of, http://www.infobarrel.com/.
Our first parents seemed at one with God, nature and themselves but it didn't last long. Accepting what the serpent has suggested, the first humans strayed from the One who created them, with pride in their choice and lack of respect toward the Creator that gave up God's intimate fellowship. Their disobedience prompted immediate consequences. They were aware of their naked bodies. They ran away to hide upon hearing God in the garden.
Today, when we sin, we also encounter trepidation and embarrassment at being found out. They were estranged both from the Lord and their kin. Adam faulted God for making him sin. It was implied that without God's introduction or creation of woman, man or Adam, would not have sinned. They were not very acquainted with the intricacies of nature.
How our first ancestors knew the earth and creation had then changed as did their forms. The whole of creation was God's gift to the first humans but the corruption of sin made working with earth and creation far more daunting. Mortality introduced itself to mankind's story. Sinning makes us dead to holiness. The world became a place that was plagued with sin after the sins of our first parents.
Man as the source of original sin shows how he is the morally evil one in stories and parables such as Cain and Able, Noah and the Ark, and the series of infidelities that the Chosen People participated in against God, and the Covenant. Once sin made its appearance among humans, its effects resounded in the universe. Our first ancestors, Adam and Eve, were created completely good and given the opportunity to become friends with God. God actually let them live in paradise as a symbol of their close relationship with God. They were created in a primary condition of sanctity and righteousness.
Original holiness's grace was to share in divine life. Due to his original sin, the accord that man once had, with God and with formation, were now gone. God has plenty of mercy even for sinners. It's important not to view the "curses" of our original parents' sin as a cycle of punishments from God. They are simply intended to exemplify the disorder that sin creates.
Each of us comes into this life clothed in the original sin. The account of the fall as recorded in Genesis carries a message of hope even when things go terribly wrong. God loves all of us so very much, that he gives us hope each day to be part of him again, and to again be clean and wearing his garments once more. The Sacrament of Baptism is an instrument that established harmony of man with God, with other human and with earth.
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