About Evil

Since the fall of Adam, all people are born tainted with a spiritual disease which the Bible calls "sin." This sin is first and foremost a lack of the fear of God, a lack of trust in God, and a tendency toward self-serving thoughts, words and deeds, which run contrary to true love for one's neighbor.  Scripture teaches that this vice of origin (or, "original sin,") is truly the root of every evil we experience, and even now is the cause of all temporal death. Worse, it makes us lost and ruined in body and soul and condemns us and will bring eternal death upon all those who are not redeemed from it. Being depraved, we by nature do not want to believe this, but instead continue in our wickedness, the greatest of which is continuing to insist that we are not wicked at all. (Romans 8:1-4, Ephesians 2:1-3)