The Origin of Sin

Would it surprise you to learn that Adam and Eve’s sin in the Garden of Eden was not the first occurrence of sin? Sin was already in the universe before Adam and Eve were created!

What is sin? Collins Concise Dictionary defines sin as: 1. (a) Transgression of God’s known will or any principle or law regarded as embodying this. (b) The condition of estrangement from God arising from such transgressions. 2. Any serious offence, as against a religious or moral principle. 3. Any offence against a principle or standard.

To put it bluntly, sin is disobedience against God in any shape or form!  All sin is against God! When we sin against our fellow men, we are sinning also against God.

So having established that sin is against God, who made the first act of disobedience against God?

Satan, the Devil is the originator of sin!

The Scriptures again give us the details. Isaiah 14:12-15 tell us about Lucifer (Satan). (12)  “How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!  How are you cut down to the ground. You who weakened the nations! ( 13)  For you have said in your heart: (14) ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I also will sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest side of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ (15) Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depth of the Pit.”

Ezekiel 28:12-15 states, (12) “...’You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. (13) You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering; the sardius, topaz and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emeralds and gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day you were created. (14) You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; you were on the holy mountain of God; you walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. (15) You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you’.”

Lucifer, the anointed cherub of God committed the first sin against God. Ezekiel 28:17 gives us the beginning of his downfall. “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendour...” Lucifer, the anointed cherub became Satan, the Devil. In his pride and disobedience he caused other angelic beings to sin and follow him.

2 Peter 2:4 states, “...God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgement.”

Jude verse 6 tells us, “And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgement of the great day.”

Now it is apparent that not all of Satan’s minions are in Hell at this present time. God in His sovereignty has allowed this.

It is Satan using the serpent in the Garden of Eden who beguiles Eve into sinning.

Genesis 3:4-6, “Then the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruits and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.”

See Satan’s lie, “You will not surely die...” Adam and Eve died!

Romans 6:36 states, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  Sin, disobedience against God brings judgement; whether you are a human being or an angelic being.

Matthew 25:41 tells us about, “...the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.”

In Revelation 20:15 we find that, “...anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.”

Is your name written in the Book of Life?

Romans 10:9, 10 states, “That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus Christ and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

Jon Peasey

[All Scriptures quoted are from the New King James version]