Before the fall of man, Adam was given many different duties by God. Adam was in charge of the naming of the animals in the wo

There is one event that happens to us all, and we all know what that is. But why should it? Why should there be wasting away and then ending? Science can provide no acceptable answer, for to say that disease results from the decay of nature only pushes the question further back. Disease and death are abnormalities. Man is created by the eternal God, gifted with a never – dying soul. Why then should we not continue to live here forever? Because of the fall; death is the wages of sin.

In the perfection of the Garden of Eden, God left out many feelings and emotions that we now experience. There was no sadness or anger, nor was there any guilt or shame. Another great punishment God gave humanity was those feelings. “Shame is a situation or condition into which a person, city, or nation is brought, which involves a loss of respect and exposure to reproach” a definition taken out of The Writers Digest Dictionary. Another word that is used for shame is nakedness. ‘Following the statement “the eyes of them both were opened,” we would naturally expect the next statement to say, “and they saw that they were naked;” but instead it says, “they knew that they were naked”’ a quote taken from Arthur Pinks book. That statement shows that it was not a physical eye opening, but more of an opening of the eyes of understanding. After that act, they have lost their innocence.

When man was first created, he was blessed with an intellectual mind and a strong and perfect body. God had also blessed man with the Spirit of God. What really is the spirit? The spirit is what makes us conscious of God and relates us to Him. An example is: a horse and ox are not conscious of God because they have no spirit. They are only aware of their own beings. God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (Gen. 2:7), which describes how God gave His spirit to man. That one act of sinful nature has completely changed their relation to God and at the same time reversed their feelings toward Him. They were no longer the objects of His favor, but now the subjects of His wraith. “As the effect of their sinfulness and the result of the spiritual death, the Lord God ceased to be the object of their love and confidence, and had become the object of their aversion and distrust, says Arthur Pink. Even through mans fall that does not result in the extinguishment of that spirit which was a part of man’s complex being when created by God. God has given us our spirit for all eternity, but the fall has brought man’s spirit into the weakness of death. The spirit to be under the power of death is very different from the body dying. For when the body dies it stays on the earth and decays becoming inactive and insensible as a stone. But the spirit now becomes under God’s rule and still retains its vitality and all its power. Death is referred to as the release of the spirit.

Our bodies were perfect in every form and way possible. God had made us in His image to live with Him forever. As soon as sin entered the world, we had to face the penalty. And that penalty was death. Stated earlier in the paper, the wages of sin is death. We are now flesh and no longer just a living soul. All sickness and pain are associated with the sin that Adam had committed and that has been passed on to our generations.

Death necessarily implies a failure of the powers of the body. Sickness, feebleness, the wasting of the physical energies and tissues are also included. All of these originated in sin as their moral cause, and are the penal results of it. Every aching joint, every quivering nerve, and feeling of pain we experience is a reminder and mark of God’s displeasure on the original misuse of our bodily powers in the Garden of Eden. “All the pains and disorders of our bodies, by which our health is impaired and our way through this world made difficult, are the consequences of our apostasy from God” Arthur Pink

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