Me: Interesting sign!
Prodigal: Yep, this guy who owns it blames everything on the weather or his raisin’.
Me: Well God has another view.
This is from Dwight Pentecost
One of the most important questions which you can face is the question, “How far did Adam fall?” A number of different answers have been given to that question.
The liberal says that Adam fell upward, so that Adam’s lot was better after the fall than before the fall because something was added to the personality of Adam which he had been deprived previously. Consequently, Adam was a fuller and more complete person after the fall than he was before the fall. There are those who say that when Adam fell, he feel over the cliff, but that when he was going over the cliff he grabbed something on the top of the cliff and held on. He fell downward, but he held on before he slipped over the brink, and if he exerts enough will and enough strength he can pull himself back up cover the brink and stand on solid ground again. Those who have that concept are trying to lift themselves by their own bootstraps and work their way into heaven.
Then, there is the teaching that says that when Adam fell, he slipped over the brink but he landed on a ledge part way down and that the ledge is the church and the church will lift him up and put him on solid ground again.
But the Word of God says that when Adam fell he fell all the way. He became depraved, totally depraved, unable to do anything to please God. He is under sin, dead, under judgement, under Satan’s control; he is lost.
Genesis 6:9
These are the records of the generations of Noah, Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
