Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig. Today, the Doctrine of Man, Part 19.

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Welcome to Defenders. We're podcasting today from my home office. We've learned from the church that we normally meet at that it will not be until mid-August that we'll be allowed to meet again at the church building. So until that time, we'll continue with our podcasts from home.

Today, we come to the fourth subsection of our study of the Doctrine of Man,

which is Man as Sinner.

Let's look first at the classic doctrine of the fall. We'll look at three biblical passages

concerning the fall. The first is from Genesis chapter 3, verses 1 to 7.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the Lord God had made.

He said to the woman, did God say you shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

And the woman said to the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but

God said you shall not eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but God said you shall not eat of the fruit

of the tree which is in the midst of the garden. Neither shall you touch it lest you die.

But the serpent said to the woman, You will not die, for God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and

you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the

eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate,

and she also gave some to her husband and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened,

and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves

aprons. From this point, the remainder of the story goes on to tell of how God then cast certain

curses upon the man and the woman for their disobedience in the garden. The principal passage in the New Testament which reflects on the fall is found in Paul's

letter to the Romans, Chapter 5, verses 12 to 21. Paul writes, therefore, as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin,

and so death spread to all men because all men sinned, sin indeed was in the world before the

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