From Genesis 8, “I know they have this bent toward evil from an early age.”
Here God is promising Noah and his family he will never again flood the earth and kill off all living things. God verbalizes something he knows and knew from the very beginning.
The book of Genesis begins and creation was “good”, the creation of man and woman was “very good”. We must start here…the foundation, the creation of humankind was goodness, wholeness. When sin entered, it broke it all up. As part of the curse God spoke over Adam and Eve, sin would be a part of humanity for all time.
Therefore we are all born with a sin nature. This is why Aubrey knows how to say no and fight for her way when she has never had this modeled or taught to her. It blew our mind the first few times she shook her head “no” to us.
Since we are born with this sin nature, since God created humanity as good and whole, this point us to Jesus which is the only way for wholeness to return to us. When we turn to Jesus, it does not mean we not longer sin or are perfect…that’s just stupid, but there is a reconnection to the Father which was lost back in the garden.
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