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Suffering as a Result of the Fall: Genesis 3:16-19

Before humanity’s fall into sin, life was perfect and fulfilling. Human beings didn’t experience pain, or hardship, or sickness, or death. But after Adam and Eve sinned, God cursed them and all their natural descendants.

Well, as a result of the Fall, God judged men and women and indeed, the whole of creation. So, for example work, which was something that Adam and Eve were engaged in prior to the Fall, became toil and hence, human beings have a love-hate relationship with work. The relationship between the man and the woman, again, was corrupted and perverted. Childbirth is, again, another gift of God for the re-creation of more images of God, became painful, and basically, the overall result was that the good things that God gave for Adam and Eve to enjoy continued to be enjoyed, but actually, then, were also twisted and perverted in some sense, and weren’t enjoyed in all their fullness. – Rev. Dr. Simon Vibert

God’s curses on humanity are recorded in Genesis 3:16-19. These curses didn’t just cause humanity pain and suffering; they also hindered them from fulfilling the tasks God had assigned to them. Humanity began to experience hardship in their tasks of multiplying and filling the earth, in working the ground and taking care of it, and in ruling over the earth and spreading God’s kingdom. Even worse, all humanity would begin to experience death. And these curses extended throughout all human generations. So, if we are ever to fulfill God’s purposes for humanity, we need a Redeemer that can rescue us from these hindrances and restore us to a blessed, joyful existence.