And now, there was no means to reclaim men from this fallen state, which man had brought upon himself because of his own disobedience.
We are fallen not just because of Adam's transgression, but because we each individually fall from grace through our disobedience. We may blame Adam for introducing physical death into the world, but we have only our own selves to blame for our personal sins and mistakes. We do not inherit sin and its consequences, we make it ourselves, a fresh steaming batch every day. Our goal is to retake our lost perch on the right hand of God by gaining a little more ground each day than we lose. The power of the atonement boosts us forward even as the natural man drags us back down. If our faith and trust in Christ is just a little stronger than the gravitational pull of sin, we are headed in the right direction. Once we are following the right vector, it simply becomes a matter of acceleration and velocity.
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