-We go from God's plan A - life at its fullest - to death. That which is left after life has left. Still a kind of existence, this, sad and tragic, a far far cry from the way we were meant to live as image bearers of the Divine.
-Cause of death? Sin. Falling short, missing the mark. We were born into sin, freely choosing to live life apart from our Creator, hiding from Him, willingly choosing to put me first and do what I want rather than what He wants. Sins of commission, sins of omission, adding up, so many choices to disobey in fact, and yet just one would suffice. And it did. The first parents chose to disobey and their offspring do the exact same thing, born to sin as sparks fly upward. Me first. Mine. No need to be taught or instructed in the ways of sin - we emerge from the womb with the me-first-mine instinct fully developed. Yes, we are all born this way now, unable to not sin, our native impulse to transgress, to get right up to the line and step right over, doing precisely what we are told not to do, to reach for forbidden fruit. This deadly empty existence is one of separation from the true Life-Giver-and-Life-Filler, separation from life at its fullest, separated unto death, which had we continued in this separation would have become permanent, eternal death and destruction apart from the Source of life and goodness and joy and peace and beauty. Oh, what terrible and dire straits we were in...
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