Sin Makes You Stupid

Josh December 10th, 2005

Sin is not logical. It’s irrational. It makes NO sense. Sin-fulness, however, is natural. There was a time when such was not so. A long, long, time ago in a garden far, far, away there was a set of great, great, great, etc. grandparents: Adam and Eve. Now here were two people who truly had free will. Neither was created in sin. Neither had committed sin. Tabula Rasa. Clean slate. They were born with the ability to choose between good and evil. In fact, they were born with the predisposition to do good.

You’d think they’d have only chosen good. Why? Because SIN is irrational. What did God tell them? “Of all the trees in the garden you may eat, but not of this one tree. The tree of knowledge of good and evil.” That seems good, right? Sure! That seems abundant, no? Sure! So what was the problem? Who can say? Eve’s walking along one day and here comes that old serpent. He says, “Did God really say, ‘Do not eat of any tree of the garden?’ ” Sheesh…what a foolish question to even entertain! Eve should have caught it right off. God said no such thing. There were plenty of trees He promised to Adam and Eve. So the serpent started with doubt, “Did God really…”. He then proceeded to deception, “any tree”. Then he allured her, “For He [God] knows you will be like Him”. ‘

Where was Adam? Right there with her, and yet, not right there with her. Where was his leadership and protection? Where was his backbone? Eve partook of the fruit. *bangs head against wall* So, Adam rebukes her, right? Wrong. So, Adam shuns her, right? Wrong. So Adam steps in, defends his wife against the wiles of the Serpent, rebuking Him and reminding Him of God’s real command, right? Wrong. So Adam was spineless and foolishly partook as well, right? Right. *bangs imaginary Adam head against wall* With this, mankind was plunged into sin. How sad…yet still a part of God’s precise, exact, plan. Truly baffling.

Why did I post this? Just because. Sin, being irrational, motivates people to do irrational things. It drives people to do unthinkable things to other people. Somehow, someway, sin works in the mind of a person and convinces them of a good reason (or what seems to be) to do whatever it is being done. As my friend Paul Manata has so simply stated, “Sin makes you stupid.” Ain’t that the truth?! So when the Scriptures says we were enslaved to sin, it’s the truth. When it says we were dead in sin, that’s what it means. We weren’t sick or injured. Nay, we were dead. Thanks be to God for the grace that is given to His people through the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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