Sin: An Explanation Of Sin In The Bible

Every person that lives on the earth except for Jesus Christ is born as a sinner. Sin is not something parents have to teach their children how to do; but instead, adults should teach their kids to obey and to follow the Will of God. In the Bible, God says pride is the root of all evil and the main reason sin occurs. Pride is something that every human being deals with and is not something they can overcome unless they are to become a Christian.

All around the world, people have different points of view as to when and how sin originated. The Bible gives a clear explanation for how sin originated in Ezekiel 28 (Graham 66). In verse fifteen God refers to Satan when He says, “Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created” (KJV). Satan was created as an angel at the beginning of time, which meant he was also perfect at first. Every being, along with Satan, that was created to live in heaven was made perfect and sinless. Somewhere inside of the Devil is a prideful heart and the

need for self-fulfillment (Graham 67). This is made known in Isaiah 14:12-13 when the Bible says “Lucifer” desires to sit on a throne that is higher than God’s (KJV). At this time Satan is cast down into a place called Sheol, which is also known as an underworld or the place of the dead (Graham 67). The first two people to go against God and to sin on the earth was Adam and Eve. After being placed in the Garden of Eden, God told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit of a particular tree. This tree symbolized the “knowledge of good and evil.” If a person ate anything from it, then the penalty was death and they would not have the same relationship with God as before until they repented of the sin. Satan convinced Adam and Eve to eat of the tree by telling them it would make them equal with God (68). The main reason that sin began was because God created humans with a “free will” which lets man have a choice to do right or wrong. In this situation man chose to be selfish and to be prideful, which resulted in them turning away from God (69).
Every time a person sins, his conscience takes over their body and nags them about the wrong-doing until they do something about it. The best way to handle the problem is to have someone that will go through the punishment for them. Many years ago Jesus did this by dying on the cross and taking every person’s sin upon Himself to be punished at one time. The first time a person sins, it makes them imperfect and disqualifies them from being worthy of living in Heaven with God after they die. In order to have those sins taken away so that when God looks at a person, the only thing He sees is a perfect soul is to ask for Jesus to take those sins away and to believe that He already did so when He died on the cross (Graham 109). This is shown to be true in Isaiah 53:5 when God says “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed” (KJV). Jesus died on the cross to take the place for every sin that has occurred, is taking place now and will happen in the future; the only thing people need to do is believe that fact to be true and accept it (Graham 109). After Jesus died on the cross, He rose from the grave, which proved again that He can overcome every sin, no matter the size of it and will handle it for every man that believes He is capable (111).
Once a person’s physical body dies on the earth, there will be two places for their soul to possibly end up for the rest of eternity.

If a person is saved, then they will have the opportunity to meet with God in Heaven and to live with Him and all other believers forever. Being saved means a person believes he is not perfect and is not good enough for God, but he also knows Jesus died and rose again in order to take the place of the imperfections (Graham 146). If a person is not saved, then they will have to spend the rest of eternity in hell with Satan and all other unbelievers. By being placed in hell they will have to stand in front of God and give an account for every sin they did while on earth. The more sins a person commits, the more horrific his punishment will be in hell forever. No one should have to deal with the pain of hell; so to stay away from that and to live in paradise forever, all a person has to do is believe in Jesus and what He did for sinners

(147).
Each person that enters the earth is born as a sinner except for Jesus Christ. This means that no one is perfect and every person deserves punishment for their wrongdoings (Graham 109). Jesus is perfect and sinless because He is God’s son but when He died on the cross, God His Father could not bear to look at Him at that particular moment because Jesus represented every sin that has occurred or is going to take place in the future (Graham 147). This story in the Bible shows how evil and sin looks through the eyes of God. No one on earth deserves to live in Heaven, however everyone has the opportunity to by just believing (111).