{"id":27,"date":"2009-05-21T11:06:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T11:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/scienceandthesacred\/2009\/05\/-for-the-wages-of.html"},"modified":"2014-05-19T09:16:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T13:16:34","slug":"for-the-wages-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/scienceandthesacred\/2009\/05\/for-the-wages-of.html","title":{"rendered":"Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4766154&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4766154&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>Romans 6:23<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The destructive power of sin is a painful and constant reminder of the Fall, the breaking of mankind&#8217;s perfect relationship with God.&nbsp; In the Genesis story, the Fall comes from Adam and Eve&#8217;s failure to obey God&#8217;s one command: to not eat the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.&nbsp; Their actions bring about a curse from God and banishment from the perfect paradise of Eden.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">However, if we do not accept a literalist reading of the Genesis account, what are the implications for the Fall?&nbsp; If Adam and Eve did not eat the fruit, where did the Fall originate?&nbsp; Could accepting BioLogos have devastating consequences for the origins of sin, a key facet of Christianity?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">As we address in <a href=\"http:\/\/biologos.org\/questions\/evolution-and-the-fall\/\">Question 15<\/a> on our site, a literalist reading of Genesis is not required to accept the Fall.&nbsp; Other ways of interpreting the passage exist, which still account for the existence of sin.&nbsp; In fact, these views have been accepted by many theologians and scholars, including the late C.S. Lewis.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">For more on the Fall, be sure to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biologos.org\/\">www.biologos.org<\/a>.&nbsp; If you liked the video, we encourage you to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highwayvideo.com\/\">Highway Video<\/a> for more worship videos and sermon illustrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.&#8221; Romans 6:23 The destructive power of sin is a painful and constant reminder of the Fall, the breaking of mankind&#8217;s perfect relationship with God.&nbsp; In the Genesis story, the Fall comes from Adam and Eve&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sin - Science and the Sacred<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/scienceandthesacred\/2009\/05\/for-the-wages-of.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sin - Science and the Sacred\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.&#8221; 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