Creation Groans
Image via Wikipedia "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." ( Romans 8:22 ) Sometimes we don't get to see the results of our work or choices soon enough to suit us. But on one occasion, a man's choice and resulting action were given immediate attention, and the effects of that attention even now rule the universe. "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat" ( Genesis 3:6 ). The result of Adam's deliberate sin--"Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression" ( 1 Timothy 2:14 )--was immediate and total punishment upon Adam and Eve, and through them, on all humanity ( Genesis 3:14-19 ). "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so deat...