The darkness that covered the world when man chose himself for the center drove a chasm between every one of those four relationships—God, self, others, and the world. God. Just like that, God seemed distant, unknowable, untrustable. Self. Insecurity, shame, and self-consciousness plunged into the human heart for the first time. The emotions we spend our whole lives trying to escape were introduced into the story. Others. In a moment, people went from “effortless love” to “effortless competition,” fracturing into distinct groups, resorting even to violence because that’s what self-provision,
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