Chapter Reading: Genesis 3 | Verse of the Day: Romans 5:12
Podcast: Walking with God | Series: Introduction to Biblical Worldview | Episode Title: Episode 7 — “What’s Wrong with the World?” | Episode Verse: Romans 5:12
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RSSIt started with a fruit. Not because it was forbidden fruit, but because it represented a deeper lie: “God’s holding out on you.”
That’s the first whisper of sin. And it hasn’t stopped since.
“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned…” — Romans 5:12
Genesis 3 is more than a story about a snake and a tree. It’s the moment the human race exchanged trust in God for autonomy from Him. Adam’s choice wasn’t just personal, it was catastrophic.
Paul sums it up with brutal clarity: through one man, sin, and with it, death, entered the world.
But here’s the grace in the rubble: even as God pronounced judgment, He pointed to a Redeemer. The first mess was followed by the first promise.
You’re not just broken—you’re born into a world that’s broken. But that’s not the end of Romans 5 goes on to say that through one Man—Christ—the curse is reversed.
Application
- Where do you see the effects of the Fall in your own thinking, habits, or relationships?
- Read Genesis 3 and Romans 5 side by side today.
- Thank Jesus for stepping into our ruin to offer restoration.
In Walking with God, Episode 7, we unpack the biblical doctrine of the Fall and how it explains everything wrong in the world—and in us. Tune in at ShoeLeatherGospel.com.
Closing Prayer
Lord, thank You for not abandoning us after the Fall. Write redemption into every broken place in me.
The bad news is—we broke it. The good news is—Jesus came to fix it.
