Effects of the Fall

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eedom of having free choice in all of his decisions in everyday life. Having sin in our lives and, most of the time having that experience, man chooses to go back to sin causing him to become further from God. There is nothing outside of man which imposes on him any necessity of sinning or prevents his turning sin to holiness. Man does evil because he simply chooses to do so; the only immediate and direct cause of his doing evil is that he wants to do it. “Therefore since man is a responsible creature who, without any external power forcing him to act contrary to his desires, freely rejects the good and choose the evil, he must be held accountable for his criminal conduct.” Arthur Pink has a strong view of God’s just character towards our sinful nature. We are in possession of all the necessary faculties, but we voluntarily misuse them, deliberately following a course of foolishness and wickedness.
In the garden, before the fall, Adam had a type of intimacy with God that will not be felt until we are taken to heaven on the day o...