RECOVERING FROM THE FALL
A few years ago, Delta Flight 191 crashed at Dallas-Fort Worth airport killing scores of people and injuring others. Pieces of wreckage were carefully removed and stored for further analysis. Since that time, the cause of the crash has been the focus of extended research, analysis, and even litigation. Understandably, the cause of such a tragedy is of great concern.
In the spate of the evil and calamities in the world in which we live, few could deny that something seems desperately wrong with the world in which we live. Rampant crime, cruelty, corruption, and injustice exist side by side. Pollution, nuclear waste, disintegration of the ozone layer, acid rain, and a host of other maladies are bringing the earth itself to the brink of disaster. “What in the world is going on?”, “What in the world went wrong?” These questions will be answered in this article, please read to the end. The trouble and suffering we are currently facing in the world began when Adam and Eve fell in the Garden of Eden, and from that moment all human race fell as well.
We fell from grace to grass, from godliness to guilt, from glory to groaning, from sonship into slavery. The curse that God pronounced upon Adam and Eve was passed unto all men, and that is what is troubling the whole of creation even till now.
Romans 5:18-19 says:
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Beyond the earthly pains, man will be eternally separated from God without Christ. Say yes to Jesus today and escape the eternal doom that sin has brought upon humanity.
