One may make a formidable case that sin is its own penalty.
In Genesis 3, for example, when Adam and Eve chose to believe the lie rather than the truth—which is the definition of sin—that was evil. From that evil evil resulted. Their turning from life—which is the definition of death—resulted in further death.
The lie that they believed and then perpetrated of God resulted in their distortion of truth about everything else, beginning with themselves and one another. For the first time in humanity's very short history, what God had indeed said was being disregarded. Sin thus began to abound, necrotizing God's formerly "very good" creation. Keep reading
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Reading the Bible – Regularly, carefully, prayerfully
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