Prior to the fall of our first parents in the Garden, their humanity was under the control of the divine nature. As a result of their fall from purity and holiness, the human family, springing from that one pur, has been born into this life with their humanity under the control of a foreign nature, spoken of in the Bible as the “carnal mind.” As it is a principle and not an act, it cannot be pardoned, as God can only pardon the sins which man commits; hence, to free man