How did sin bring disease into the world?
I was recently asked, "How did sin bring disease into the world?" My answer was, when sin entered the world, it came with an enormous cost, death. Because of Adam and Eve’s disobedience towards God, the death penalty was placed upon all of us. The Bible tells us, “Therefore, just as through one man, sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned” (Romans 5:12). When God pronounced the death penalty on humanity (Gen. 3:19), He also “cursed” the ground (Gen. 3:17). It is important to note, that the Hebrew word for ground can better be translated as “earth.” 1 In his book, The Genesis Record, Henry M. Morris says, the effects of God “cursing” the earth was that, “The basic material of the physical creation . . . the elements themselves, the “dust of the earth,” out of which all things had been made, were brought under the bondage of decay and disintegration.” 2 Therefore, it is very possible that du...
