WHAT WAS ADAM’S SIN? Disobedience: it was an attempt at making himself equal unto God. By disobeying the commandment of God, he claimed himself to be on the same level as God by ‘making the rules’ that apply to him. We are all faced with the choice whether we will obey the command of God or serve our own natural, animal desires.
A DEFINITION OF SIN:
1 John 3:4. “Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.” (ESV) Death came by sin: Romans 5:12; 6:23: “the wages of sin is death”. This is when we sin ‘against God’. He alone has the power of life and death.
THE SENTENCE PASSED UPON ADAM & EVE.
“To dust you shall return”. Genesis 3:19 This is the main change that resulted from their disobedience. Mortality, or dying and death, is the result imposed on their nature. They became subject to weakness, disease and death. This same condition has passed to all humankind; “So death spread to all men, because all sinned,” Romans 5:12.
What the Bible describes as death is: a total cessation of life: Ecclesiastes 3:19-20; 9:4-6: “the dead do not know anything”. Also consider Psalm 6:5. Adam and Eve were no longer ‘very good’ and became dying creatures due to sin.
As a result of their uncontrolled lusts, inflamed by the serpent’s lie, they now experience a bias toward evil in that their nature is now ‘prone to sin’: “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not”. Romans 7:18. See also Genesis 8:21, Jeremiah 10:23,17:9, Romans 7:18 & Mark 7:20-23 The heart of man is ‘desparately wicked’. You may think that this runs contrary to the general attitude that ‘man is basically good’, and you would be correct. Unless one embraces the word of God, he is considered “having no hope and without God in the world” Ephesians 2:12