God’s generous provisions of light, land, vegetation, and animals are blessings given for man’s benefit, as are the abilities to know God, work, marry, and procreate. His goodness is even more clearly reflected in the goodness of his creation, evidenced by the steady refrain, “And God saw that it was good” (1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25), a goodness accentuated on the sixth day: “Behold, it was very good” (v. God’s goodness is displayed in his turning the chaos into something good-the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1–2 shows the Creator to be transcendent, sovereign, personal, immanent, and good.
Rather, God created a good universe and good human beings. Morgan, “Sin in the Biblical Story,” in Fallen: A Theology of Sin).įirst, sin is not something created or authored by God. After all, sin is not even mentioned, but that silence speaks volumes! In particular, Genesis’s teaching about God’s creation clarifies two critical principles related to sin (see Christopher W. Creation and SinĪt first glance, one might conclude that this first epoch of the biblical story has little to contribute to our understanding of sin. Mahony, “A Theology of Sin for Today,” in Fallen: A Theology of Sin). 3:12–13) and as having a beginning in history and an end in the future (1 Cor. 1:18–25) as including guilt and pollution (Mark 7:21–23 Rom. 1:31) as a failure to image the Creator to the world (Jer. 22:37) as a rouge element in creation (Gen. 5:12, 28–29) as involving commission (a deed done), omission (a deed left undone), and imperfection (a deed done with wrong motives Matt. 8:7 1 John 3:4) as a willful act and a present state of human existence (Ezek.
4:18) as an offense against God and a violation of his law (Gen. More specifically, the biblical descriptions of sin can be further defined as a failure to glorify God and a rebellion against him (1 John 3:4 Rom. Thus, sin is the quality of any human action that causes it to fail to glorify the Lord fully. 4:18), and, most notably, a “coming short of the glory of God” (Rom. 1:18), an absence of reverence for God (Rom. In this sense, sin is a failure to keep God’s law (“lawlessness,” 1 John 3:4), a lack of God’s righteousness (Rom. Many are expressions that view sin as a failure or a “falling short” of a standard.
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