βFor we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until nowβ (Rom.Β 8:22).
Modern evolution, of course, denies the Bible account of the fall and has much to say about βthe ascent of man,β but evolution fails to account for that which lies at the very root of all manβs troubles: sin. It fails to explain adequately why man finds himself weak, poor, miserable, distressed, corrupt, perishing, and it fails to explain why he is so utterly helpless to lift himself from this state. It fails to explain his inherent sense of blameworthiness; indeed insists he has no cause for a βguilt complex.β
Every man feels within himself a disorder, a positive dislocation of things, which science β and certainly the theory of evolution β is unable to explain. Only the Bible account of the fall explains it and shows how all manβs trouble and distress arise from his own nature, which is fallen and corrupt.
ββ¦BY ONE MAN SIN ENTERED INTO THE WORLD, AND DEATH BY SIN; AND SO DEATH PASSED UPON ALL MEN, FOR THAT ALL HAVE SINNEDβ (Rom.Β 5:12).
It is most important for the unsaved to learn this lesson; to learn that it is not merely our sins, but our sin that makes us unfit for the presence of God; not merely our deeds but our nature; not merely what we have done, but what we would do because we are essentially sinful as the children of Adam.
How profoundly grateful we should be, then, that God loves us despite our sins and our sinful natures, and thatβ¦ ββ¦God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for usβ (Rom. 5:8). source
