sexual intercourse: Adam “knew” Eve, and the result was not a book but a baby. Genesis 3 does not teach that man is now ontologically bad, bad in his being, but morally bad, bad in his choices. God made our being; we make our choices. Yet it is our state of sinfulness, or separation from God (our state of original sin), that leads us to make sinful choices (actual sins). The word sin comes from the German Sünde, which means “separation.” We sin (actual sin)