+ ORIGINAL SIN CHAPTER FOUR

+ THE FALL GENESIS 3 ADAM AND EVE DISOBEY GOD, EATING OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE DID NOT SUFFER IMMEDIATE DEATH, BUT LOST THE LIFE OF GRACE IN THEIR SOULS SERIOUS OFFENSE WHICH HAS AFFECTED ALL OF MANKIND FOR ALL TIME

+ THE CURSE OF ORIGINAL SIN EVERY HUMAN PERSON IS CONCEIVED WITH THE STAIN OF ORIGINAL SIN WE ARE ALSO AFFLICTED WITH A VULNERABILITY FOR TEMPTATION THIS IS CALLED CONCUPISCENCE JESUS AND MARY ARE THE ONLY TWO NOT AFFECTED BY THIS

+ THE CURSE OF ORIGINAL SIN BY SINNING, MAN BROUGHT EVIL INTO THE WORLD WOMEN EXPERIENCE PAIN IN CHILDBIRTH FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS SUFFERED WORK BECAME MORE LABORIOUS EVERY PERSON EXPERIENCED DEATH SIN IS THE REJECTION OF GOD’S LOVE OUR FREE WILL ALLOWS US TO SIN

+ WHY DOES EVIL EXIST? EVIL DOES NOT TRULY “EXIST”; RATHER, IT IS THE ABSENCE OF GOOD. GOD GIVES US FREE WILL TO CHOOSE TO FOLLOW GOD’S WILL OR TO REJECT IT EVIL STEMS FROM A LACK OF RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE, A LACK OF LOVE FOR NEIGHBOR, GRED, ENVY, LUST, ETC. SUFFERING IS ROOTED IN ORIGINAL SIN, BUT TO ASK GOD TO TAKE AWAY SUFFERING WOULD REQUIRE HIM TO TAKE OUR FREE WILL. GOD RESPECTS OUR FREEDOM, EVEN IF THAT MEANS CHOOSING EVIL OVER GOOD.

+ NATURAL LAW God has written in our hearts an innate desire for Him. Our innate knowledge of good and evil is called natural law. Murder, theft, adultery are wrong—with or without faith We are obliged by natural law to choose good and avoid evil

+ THE PROTOEVANGELIUM THE SILVER LINING OF THE FALL… GOD PROMISES A SAVIOR THIS IS “THE FIRST GOSPEL”

+ SALVATION HISTORY… IN A NUTSHELL THE OLD TESTAMENT EXPLAINS PEOPLE’S FAILURE TO FOLLOW GOD’S COMMANDS GOD’S PROMISE OF A REDEEMER HIS SELECTION OF A PEOPLE TO BE HIS OWN PREPARING FOR THE MESSIAH THROUGH COVENANTS A COVENANT IS A SACRED BOND OR PROMISE NOAH ABRAHAM MOSES DAVID

+ NOAH FROM THE FAMILY OF SETH, GOD CALLED NOAH HE WAS INSTRUCTED TO BUILD AN ARK TO SAVE HIS FAMILY FROM THE GREAT FLOOD GOD PROMISED NEVER AGAIN TO DESTROY THE EARTH WITH A FLOOD– THE RAINBOW NOAH’S LINEAGE REBUILDS THE HUMAN FAMILY PEOPLE FALL INTO SIN AGAIN

+ ABRAHAM FROM THE LINE OF SHEM (NOAH’S FIRSTBORN) GOD PROMISES ABRAHAM WILL BE THE FATHER OF A GREAT NATION ASKED TO SACRIFICE ISAAC (A TYPE FOR CHRIST) GOD’S PROMISE FULFILLED TO ABRAHAM THROUGH THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL

+ MOSES GOD REVEALS HIMSELF TO MOSES GOD PROMISES MOSES WILL RESCUE HIS PEOPLE FROM SLAVERY AND THAT ISRAEL WOULD BRING OTHER NATIONS TO GOD’S FAMILY TERMS OF THE COVENANT GIVEN IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ISRAELITES BROKE COVENANT, FELL VICTIM TO IDOLATRY, AND WERE GIVEN A SEPARATE SET OF ADDITIONAL LAWS

+ DAVID GOD STILL DID NOT ABANDON HIS PEOPLE GOD ESTABLISHES A KINGSHIP WHICH ESTABLISHED ISRAEL AS A NATION KING DAVID ESTABLISHES JERUSALEM AS THE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CAPITAL DAVID ESTABLISHES THE TODAH (THANKS OFFERING) ISRAEL’S FUTURE DEPENDS ON OBEDIENCE, WHILE GOD’S COVENANT WITH DAVID IS UNCONDITIONAL AND PERMANENT