Having sin in our lives and, most of the time having that experience, man chooses to go back to sin causing him to become further from God. There is nothing outside of man which imposes on him any necessity of sinning or prevents his turning sin to holiness. Man does evil because he simply chooses to do so; the only immediate and direct cause of his doing evil is that he wants to do it. "Therefore since man is a responsible creature who, without any external power forcing him to act contrary to his desires, freely rejects the good and choose the evil, he must be held accountable for his criminal conduct." Arthur Pink has a strong view of God's just character towards our sinful nature. We are in possession of all the necessary faculties, but we voluntarily misuse them, deliberately following a course of foolishness and wickedness. .
In the garden, before the fall, Adam had a type of intimacy with God that will not be felt until we are taken to heaven on the day of the Second Coming. After the fall though, our intellectual faculties have become so impaired and dishonored that our understanding is very incapable of understanding spiritual things in a spiritual manner. The mind of fallen man is not only negatively ignorant, but positively opposed to the light and convictions of our Lord. Due to that fact, many men have become greatly mistaken in supposing that the faculties of men are as capable now of receiving the testimony of God as they were before the fall. .
In the fall of man, the sin committed has made our minds to wander after forbidden objects, seeking to glorify ourselves and not the Father. In this we have lost our great communion with God and have become more in love with the creations and less in love with the creator (Eph. 4:18). Had our desire and delight been in the Lord, our want for concealment could not have possessed our minds. .
God created man to be eternal, and to be with Him forever in the garden.