Reply To: Harmatology 2024/2025 Discussion Board 1

[Miriam IfeanyiChukwu]

I agree with you sis Covenant that sin separates one from God. A perfect example of this was seen in the Garden when Adam hid himself from the presence of God whom he once fellowshipped and communed with in the cool of the day after he ate the fruit God instructed him not to eat (Gen. 3:8). His reason for hiding was that he was naked (Gen. 3:10). Sin had taken away the covering God put on both him and his wife. Sin created a gulf, a lacuna, between man and his maker- God.
Man has tried to fix the separation between him and God created by sin and each attempt has failed woefully. Adam made clothes from leaves for himself (Gen. 3:7), and people used morality, religion, etc. to return to God. Just as God killed the animal in the Garden and covered Adam with the coats of the skin (Gen. 3:21), that is how Jesus was slain on the cross to restore the fellowship man once had with God. The veil in the Temple was rent into two giving us access to the presence of God (Luke 23:45). The separation problem caused by sin was sorted eternally, once and for all on the cross and just by putting faith in the sacrifice of Jesus, one can enjoy fellowship again with God.