The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life. (Job 33:4) But, as the Genesis story proceeds from this tender creation of human life in intimate relation to God, we come to the horror story of Genesis 3. We sinned. We rebelled. We disobeyed God, choosing to believe a lie, trust ourselves and reject the moral authority of our Creator. And the result was the sentence of death. Genesis 6:3 makes an interesting comment on the state of affairs that exists because of human sin,
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