Sin, when in the body, cannot not stay put. It’s not a guest that stays in one room, making sure not to disturb the others. It is a tenant that lives in everything and goes everywhere. It can bleed into every part, choking out anything holy. The glass shattered and broke when it moved in. Adam and Eve, God’s first image-bearers, made to love and reflect God in creation, had now become the world’s first sinners. Everyone born after Adam inherited it. And, just like Eve, I from birth, would experience
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