The Expulsion and Its Consequences

The Expulsion and Its Consequences
Genesis 3: 23-24

I was once walking through the seminary campus when I spotted a former student, whom I had known quite well, sitting in a patio area with rather a disconsolate look. When I asked him if he was OK, he replied, “I’ve made a train wreck of my life.” He had had an affair, his wife had walked out on him with their children, and she was not interested in having him back. In a class soon afterwards, we were discussing Genesis 3, and I thought the image of a train wreck was an appropriate one for the consequences of Adam and Eve’s action. More recently, a Los Angeles train engineer apparently ran a red light while he was texting some train enthusiasts and drove into a freight train coming in the opposite direction, killing himself and a number of other people. One mistake can have disastrous consequences for many people other than oneself, and you can’t undo the consequences...