The Curse Of Hard Work And Painful Labor

Sin has become so overlooked by humanity, that the world has taken the Bible and made it a storybook. They have minimized the effect of sin with false beliefs of Jesus forgiving them even when they refuse to repent or to accept Him. Some have used the Genesis account of sin as a fable, while others have tried to eliminate the Savior Jesus’ part in the saving process. They have not even recognized the need for Jesus who sits beside the Father asking for our

None of that would have happened if sin had not entered the world. The reason we are typically clouded by sin and its impact among us is because we live in a world where sin is normal and completely overtakes the good. We have gotten so used to sin being in our world that it almost has just become mundane and normal to see it happening and to participate in it as well. Instead of seeing someone sinning, and praying for them and hoping and believing that they will turn their lives around, we instead immediately start to judge them in our minds before we even know the full story. The word “sin” has become almost nonexistent in our world today. Because of this, grace has been lost as well because grace cannot exist without the language of sin. As much as it does not seem to make sense, the idea of sin has been lost in this world full of sinners.

An observation of this compelling issue is, all humans are extended the opportunity to receive salvation. However, in order to receive salvation that brings credits us with righteousness, we must have faith that God the Father sent his son Jesus to take

A very good question to ask a Christian is: What is the gospel? Shockingly many Christian have the same belief, but different answers. Reading this book opened up my eyes and helped me understand more about what the gospel is. In this book it explains in four chapters these four main points: God, Men, Christ, Men. First, it explains who God is, he is the creator of the heaven, earth, human and animals, he is also perfect, almighty, and compassionate. Yes, all those things are true about god, but there is also a view of god that people do not like to hear. God does not leave the wicked unpunished. God loves righteousness and justice. In Genesis 6:11 the bible says that the world was corrupted and full of violence so god said to Noah that he was going to put an end to it and he did. Since god is a perfect god and cannot see sin in order to clean the world of sin he had to send down his wrath.

Like children struggling to overcome the powerful tug of the ocean’s current, so humans were imprisoned by the unyielding tug of sin. The Son of Man’s cause was to save man from this paralyzing current. Jesus was even nailed to a rough tree and died on our behalf. The Bible states this, “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). He valued our freedom with Him so much He was willing to die to secure it.

Humankind was created in the image of God; He gave them like characteristics such as compassion, love, and faithfulness. In Genesis 3 we learn of the Fall of Humanity, which introduces not only sin into the world but also pain. (“Lecture 3”, 2015) After the Fall human nature is then scarred by sin, humans are born sinful by nature. In Genesis 4 Cain brings murder into the world; from here we see humanity relentlessly depart from the wisdom of God. (“Lecture 3”, 2015) Only by accepting Jesus Christ into their hearts, can they atone for their sins and get right with the Lord.

Albert Wolters, in his article “Fall from Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview,” describes the whole curse of sin in the human existence by the sequence creation-fall-redemption and argues that only God can redeem this currently “worldly” creation corrupted by evil as an external “parasite” in the God´s perfectly-created earth. In the first part, Wolters explains that the original plan of God was to make earth to be very good, but then the original sin corrupted this holy world affecting “creation as a whole.” (53) This was way, sin corrupted human behavior. However, the consequences of fall extend further human behavior because sin also corrupted the non-human things like the arts, science,

Chapter 5 describes Genesis, how by Adam and Eve's decision to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. All of what God created was then infected by sin. Causing nothing He created to work "as it should. Sin leads to the disintegration of every area of life" (Keller 85). Genius describes how God created humans for work, but not since sin has been entangled to every single area of life. We are "suffering the natural consequences of working against" our design, (Keller 86), or "painful toil" (Genesis 3:17). We often experience feeling of fulfilment for a short moment and then it seems to all fall apart. This is "because of a lack of ability and because of resistance in the environment around us." (Keller 90). But as Timothy Keller states, he is "grateful to God for the glimpses He's given" for these glimpses are how " work was intended to be" (92) as should we be grateful as well.

Therefore, the suffering and sorrow that you and I face today isn’t because of a “bad God”, it has come down through our generational line and we suffer because we are sinners. Romans 6:23 says, "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Some people may say “ I lead a good life, I am not hurting anyone, I give to charity… ”But this isn’t good enough in Gods eyes, people need to overcome sin and selfishness which is within all of us. We are all born into a nature of sin, which has been passed down from Adam and Eve.

The two articles written by Weiner and Hall explain two choices of work in the South from the 1800s to the early 1930s, industry versus agriculture. Since the beginning of times, there has always been farming but Weiner tells about the emergence of sharecroppers and tenant farmers. Hall explains the rising industry of mill factories in the South. These are both important jobs to explore because they describe the workforce in the South and the conditions at which many Southerners were susceptible to.

When life hits us with problems and obstacles, we ask: “Why did this happen to me? What did I do to deserve this?” If we believe in God, we direct these questions to Him. In Classic Christianity, Bob George shows an example of this when he talks about a man preparing himself for a wildness trip. Each day he pushed himself harder to get ready. He wondered what his body would say about his preparations. “Why are you doing this to me?” “What have I done to deserve this?” Were the two thoughts that came to his mind. We do the same thing with God. We wonder why the Lord is punishing us. The Lord doesn’t punish us; He loves us unconditionally. The Lord is preparing us to face even greater challenges in life with perseverance and faith.

When each man or woman is given birth to this world by his or her mother, he or she has inherited the trait of sinfulness from the atrocity committed by Adam and Eve, the first predecessors to mankind on Earth. Their souls have been stained with the darkness of Hell, and their DNAs have been altered by the hand of Satan. Although such monstrous betrayal and contravention of God’s law are incendiary to Him, God follows, in contrast to the sinners, the beat of his pure heart towards humans’ sakes. Eventually, Jesus was sent to this world in the retrospect as a noble savior, who selflessly accepted to be persecuted and deceased for the deliverance of men from the Earth fouled by Lucifer. Instead of endeavoring to be perfectly moral, Christians

I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He’s a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering. The Bible says that God is not the author of evil. It speaks of evil as a “mystery.” In 2 Thessalonians 2:7 it talks about the mystery of iniquity. The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah said, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” He asked that question, “Who can understand it?” And that’s one reason we each need God in our lives.

God has the ultimate judgment. He rewards the righteous with life ever-after and He condemns those who sinned to eternal suffering in Hell; however, He has no influence upon our fate on Earth. Thanks to providence, humans are accountable for their own actions and how they treat others. One could be the humblest person on Earth and still encounter the worst suffering, and God cannot save that humble person as He has no control over other peoples’ actions.

God created the world, a place free from suffering and pain where humankind could live in peace and harmony,however when man chose the way of Satan by eating the forbidden fruit, this was the beginning of sin in the world. God makes it clear to Adam and Eve the consequences of sinning, and from this moment on suffering was declared. Since dying on the cross, through the letter of St Paul to the Colossians, Christ expects us to bind our sufferings with his. As a result of sin, God allows us to suffer because he loves us and wants us to have free will and the choice whether to love/not love. With this freedom, mankind has broken laws which result in pain and suffering which act as an early warning system when we exercise wrong decisions. Catholics believe that suffering is a test of faith and this is exampled in the book of Job where God lets good people suffer: Job loosing everything he owned, the death of his childer etc. Job examples the reaction to our own suffering. Instead of asking why, the Church teaches us to endure through our suffering and remember that God loves us and no matter the situation will lead us back home. In Pope John Paul’s apostolic