Our parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.[1]
The preacher in Ecclesiastes 7:29, said: “Behold, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices.”[2]
God created our first parents (Adam and Eve) upright and perfect; however, Satan using the subtlety of the serpent, seduced Eve to eat from the knowledge of good and evil, and she ate; she in turn seduced her husband Adam, and he willfully transgressed the commandment of God.[3] God permitted our first parents to fall from the original state of righteousness in which he created them.[4]
