The Concepts of Disharmony, Ushered in by the Fall of Humanity
Meaning
The intent of God was that humanity would live in harmony with all things including God. However, the harmony God intended for humanity was mutilated and maligned by mankind’s disobedience and rebellion against God. Discontent and unsatisfied with the limited freedom demanded by God, humanity revolted against God. As a result disharmony was the direct after effect of humanity’s rebellion against God and disobedience to God’s will. Humanities disobedience and revolt ushered in estrangement and disharmony into God’s creation.
The fall of humanity and the resulting estrangement created by mankind’s rebellion included disharmony with God, disharmony with self, disharmony with others, disharmony with nature and estrangement issues that resulted in the misuse, abuse and destruction of creation. In the end after the fall of mankind, disobedience, revolt, separation and estrangement issues left God’s created ones, carrying the burden of guilt and a sense of guilt as a result of humanity’s rebellion against God. The fall created within humanity a sin-nature, and created a separation between us and God. A separation that cannot be overcome by good works, nor by extreme acts of religion, nor by martyrdom, nor by repetitive acts of religion, nor great acts of charity.
As a result of the fall humanity has no ability to save itself. Moreover, all devices of human religion prove hopelessly inadequate to provide for salvation and an eternity in Heaven. However, God in his grace and mercy does not abandon sinful people, instead an eternal promise was given by God to the creation He dearly loved. As the Bible tells us in the fifth chapter of Paul’s letter to the Romans, “with Adam sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all people, for that all have sinned.” However, God’s grace and saving act in Christ, conquered sin and overcame the world through one man’s obedience, and that person who was fully God and fully man is Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore, Paul also concludes in chapter five of Romans, “For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.”
“Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.” (Genesis 2:15-17, 3:6-7)
“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.) Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.'” (Romans 5:12-18)