Humanity – Easter Sunday

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God demonstrated His great love for us by His only begotten son to die in our place, and He God loves His enemies.

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When God first created Adam and Eve, humanity’s condition was ideal- the perfect environment, an innocent nature, and an intimate fellowship with the Creator. That all changed after Adam and Eve sinned. The human condition changed. Since that time, the human condition can be described as lost, blind, sinful, guilty, enslaved, morally ruined, and dying. We are sinful, having broken the law of God (1 John 1:8). We stand guilty before God, the righteous Judge (Romans 5:12). We are enslaved by sin (John 8:34).

Original Sin Theories

  1. Jean- Jacques Rousseau theorized that man is naturally good, but is corrupted by society.
  2. Others agree with Aristotle’s and John Locke’s notion that we are born an empty slate, that we are free to define the content of our character, and outside forces shape us.
  3. According to the Bible, the natural human condition is sinful and estranged from God. We are not born innately good or morally neutral. We are born sinners, and every person’s destiny is death and wrath because of it.

The Biblical Doctrine

The Biblical Doctrine to total depravity defines the human condition. Due to Adam’s fall into sin, mankind is corrupted by sin in every area of his life: mind, emotions, and will. We think sinfully, we feel sinfully, and we choose sinfully.

We naturally love darkness (John 3:19).

We do not understand the things of God (1 Cor. 2:14).

We are spiritually blind (2 Cor. 4:4)

We are morally ruined (Romans 7:15-25).

In our natural human condition, we do not willingly seek God or His will (Romans 3:10).

Because of our sinful nature, we are hostile to God (Romans 8:7)

 

Thanks to the grace of God and the salvation Christ provides, we can look forward to human condition being restored to its original state. Fortunately for us, God loves His enemies, and He demonstrated His great love for us by His only begotten son to die in our place. If we believe that Jesus died at Calvary and rose on the third day, then we carry the Easter message with us everyday.