The Fall of Adam and Eve is one of the most famous passages not only in the

Bible but all literature. But despite this it’s not always easy to

understand what is going on. Rather than just being about disobedience or a

loss of innocence, it’s really about something much deeper. The heart of

Adam and Eve’s fall is about independence. They go after something they

already have (wisdom and divinity) but they want it without God. This tends

to be the heart and result of all human sin - a turned inwards on oneself,

grasping at an identity independent of God. We become incapable of being

the generous open people, connected to our creator, that we were made to

be. The beauty of the gospel though is that we don’t have stay that way -

Jesus has broken the death spiral of independence and offered us a

reconnection to the God without whom we would be lost.