The fall is progressive, not static. Things don’t just go from good to bad. Rather, things continue to get worse. They don’t stay the same, and they don’t get better. It’s like a fatal disease that begins at a point in time, but then progresses and runs its ever increasingly destructive course.
The Story of the Fall by Michael Lawrence taken from Biblical Theology by Michael Lawrence, copyright 2010, Crossway Books, a division of Good News Publishers, Wheaton Illinois 60187, www.crosswaybooks.org. Page 133-134.
