The Fall & Original Sin
How the Fall happened, what original sin is, and how fallen nature is passed down and removed.
What was the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil?
The forbidden fruit symbolizes Eve's love, and "eating" it represents an unsanctioned love relationship between Eve and the Archangel, who became Satan. This act of fornication was the root of humanity's fall, establishing a lineage of evil and causing spiritual death. God's providence aims to restore humanity to a state of pure, God-centered love.
Why did God allow the Fall to happen, and why did He not intervene though He foresaw it?
God allowed the Fall by respecting His creation principles, which endowed humans with free will and responsibility for their spiritual maturity. The Fall resulted from the archangel Lucifer's jealousy and subsequent temptation of Eve, leading to illicit spiritual and physical love relationships that initiated Original Sin. God, as a loving Heavenly Parent, could not forcibly intervene without negating genuine love; thus, the Fall was a human failure of responsibility, not a divine intention. God immediately began the Providence of Restoration to guide humanity back to Him.
How did the Fall happen and what is original sin?
The Fall is explained through Genesis in this teaching: premature, misdirected love involving the archangel, Eve, and Adam produced spiritual alienation and a fallen lineage. The answer explains Eve’s premature desire for wisdom, the age and growth stage, humanity’s subordination to a servant, and restoration through rebirth and responsible love.
How is original sin passed down through generations?
Original sin is transmitted through generations not merely as imputed guilt, but as a corrupted bloodline stemming from illicit sexual relationships that constituted the Fall. Eve's spiritual fall with the Archangel Lucifer, followed by her physical fall with Adam, engrafted humanity into Satan's lineage. This created a hereditary impurity, a fallen nature inherited from parent to child, necessitating a spiritual rebirth and a change of bloodline to restore humanity to God's intended pure lineage.
Who is the serpent in the story of the Fall, and what role did it play?
The serpent in the Garden of Eden was not a literal animal but Lucifer, a high-ranking archangel. Driven by jealousy of God's love for Adam and Eve, Lucifer engaged in an illicit sexual relationship with Eve, leading to humanity's spiritual fall. This act, followed by Eve's physical transgression with Adam, established the root of all sin and suffering, passing on Satan's lineage to all humanity. Understanding this reveals the true origin of evil and humanity's fallen nature.
Why did the serpent cause the Fall?
The serpent that caused the Fall was a fallen angel, whose identity is revealed in Scripture. Motivated by jealousy and a perceived lack of love from God, this angel sought to usurp God's love for Eve, leading to an illicit spiritual sexual relationship. Eve then similarly seduced Adam, resulting in a physical sexual transgression. This disruption of the divine order through misdirected love led to humanity's spiritual and physical Fall.
What was the Tree of Life mentioned in the Bible?
The Tree of Life symbolizes Adam in his perfected state, embodying God's ideal for humanity, achieving the Three Blessings, and living in complete unity with God. Humanity's innate desire for the Tree of Life signifies the longing for this perfected state and the restoration of a true divine lineage, as revealed throughout the Bible and clarified in this teaching.
Why must the fall be of a sexual nature if we look at the bible as a whole?
The sexual nature of the Fall ties the Fall to corrupted love, marriage, lineage, and spiritual rebirth. The expanded answer examines fruit, nakedness, childbirth, Jude, Job, Solomon’s religious setting, and the spiritual and physical sequence.
Explain how the Spiritual Fall is of a sexual nature when Angels don't have a gender or sexual organs?
The Fall was a sexual transgression, as this teaching explains. It involved a spiritual-sexual act between the Archangel Lucifer and Eve, driven by Lucifer's jealousy and unprincipled desire for love. This spiritual defilement was followed by a physical-sexual act between fallen Eve and Adam. This dual fall corrupted humanity's lineage, making the "eating of the fruit" a metaphor for illicit love relationships. Angels, though without physical gender or organs, can unite sexually through spiritual bodies, but such a union cannot produce a child.
What is fallen nature, and how is it removed?
Fallen nature is the self-centered inclination humanity inherited from the Fall, seen in four tendencies: failing to take God's standpoint, leaving one's proper position, reversing dominion, and multiplying evil. It is removed through indemnity conditions of faith and substance, as we love from God's heart, honor others, serve, and multiply goodness.
Why is chastity before marriage important?
Chastity before marriage is vital for spiritual well-being, healthy relationships, and a flourishing society. It safeguards the sacred nature of sexual union, which is meant to transmit God's lineage, life, and love exclusively within the covenant of marriage, preventing the spiritual burdens, societal breakdown, and personal suffering that arise from misusing this divine gift outside its intended purpose.
What is sin?
Sin is relationship-breaking that gives evil a foothold. It appears as original sin inherited from the Fall, hereditary sin transmitted through families, collective sin shared by groups, and individual sin personally committed. Repentance addresses personal acts, while complete restoration also heals inherited and collective conditions and changes the fallen lineage.