Original Sin (4) Corrupted Soul or Body?

Apart from deceiving them into sinning, what harm did the spiritual powers of evil do to Adam and Eve? Did they corrupt the human soul in some way? Did they destroy our spiritual discernment and their ability to discern spiritually?

• Our mortality was not a work of the spiritual powers of evil. We now die after 80 to 90 years. The first humans lived much longer than that, but I don’t believe that God created us immortal. I believe that humans needed access to the tree of life to live forever. Adam and Eve lost that, but we regain it through Jesus.

• Fallen humans were made vulnerable to sickness. This is mostly because the spiritual powers of evil created bacteria, viruses and various parasites that could attack the human body and make us sick and sometimes cause us to die. I don’t know if they were able to manipulate Adam and Eve’s DNA to make them and their descendants vulnerable to sickness. I am not sure if they did, but they did learn how to attack the DNA of individual humans to generate cancer and other diseases. Some of these genetic weaknesses are passed on to children. However, I am not sure that they were able to establish a genetic weakness that affects all humans.

• I am not sure that the spiritual powers of evil were able to touch the souls or spirits to change Adam and Eve so that they and all their descendants could no longer discern spiritual things. After they had sinned, Adam and Eve were aware of the presence of God and could still communicate with them, so they had not lost all their spiritual sensitivity. Cain, Enoch and Noah, were their descendants, but they were still able to hear God speaking.

• I believe that the main weapon of the spiritual powers of evil to shut Adam and Eve down spiritually were guilt and shame. Their main issue when God came near them was shame, so they tried to cover themselves with clothes made of fig leaves, but this did not resolve their guilt, and their shame remained. Shame created a serious barrier between them and God. Shame sunk into their soul and made them spiritually blind.