The second is moral evil, when people act with wills that are hostile to God's intentions. By acting in evil ways, we mar the creation and distance ourselves from God, and we mar the relationships we have with other people. We live in a fallen, broken world and we cannot expect life without toil. We were made for work, but in this life that work is stained by all that was broken that day in the Garden of Eden.
This too is often the result of failing to respect the limits God sets for our relationships, whether personal, corporate, or social. The Fall created alienation between people and God, among people, and between people and the earth that was to support them. Suspicion of one another replaced trust and love. In the generations that followed, alienation nourished jealousy, rage, even murder. All workplaces today reflect that alienation between workers—to greater or lesser extent—making our work even more toilsome and less productive.
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All rights reserved. Challenges We Face in Business as a Result of Sin in the World Click to listen Until this point, we have been discussing work in its ideal form, under the perfect conditions of the Garden of Eden.
Now, the counterpart to the fall in Christian thinking is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. So by blood, we're related to Adam and Eve. We're in bondage to sin. But when we repent of our sins and trust in Jesus Christ, we're united to a new head, Jesus Christ.
And because we're united to Jesus Christ, we move from a life of death, into a new life of eternal life with God forevermore. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?
For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat? I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.
To the woman he said, "I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return. The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever--" therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life. I think the one question on everyone's mind, regardless of their worldview, is what went wrong on this planet.
Why don't all babies come home with their moms, and why don't marriages last? AH 19 By the sweat of your brow AI you will eat your food AJ until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life AO and eat, and live forever.
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