The Fall: The Consequence
So what happened after Adam and Eve had their sinful snack? Literally, all hell broke loose. Sin entered the world and there were ugly consequences. Genesis 3:7-13 records
So the first thing we see is that they saw their nakedness. The realized their true state and sinfulness. This is why they covered themselves with fig leaves (Instead of the strategically placed hedges in children’s Bibles…). And this is why they hid from God when he came looking for them. Jean-Paul Sartre, a philosopher, said that the greatest fear of man is being exposed. This is exactly what they did. So Adam and Eve hid from one another and hid from God.
Sound familiar? Don’t you (and I) cover yourselves with layers so that no one sees our true selves. We don’t want people to see us for who we are. We don’t like being vulnerable, being exposed. As another philosopher, the great Billy Joel, says “We all have a face that we hide away forever and we take them out and shouw ourselves when everyone has gone.” No one wants to be exposed. Why? Because we’ve done wrong, and we don’t want others to see it.
But it gets worse. They also hid from God. Everyone inwardly knows that there is some perfect moral standard – this is God, no matter what they think it may be. There is a definite right from wrong – morals don’t come from conviction or culture but an objective source. We hid ourselves from God because we do wrong. Satan deceives us and we sin. Everyone’s done it.
I don’t want to give away the ending of my blog series – but I can’t stop here. There is only one solution to this problem, and that’s Jesus Christ. God gave his only son to live a perfect life, sacrificial death, and victorious resurrection to overcome the power of sin and death. Only by trusting in Him and not our own abilities can we truly not be afraid and hide anymore.
