Why do humans gravitate toward sin instead of toward God?

[Thorns]

Even initially unfallen and unwounded humans who had no original sin, such as Adam and Eve, gravitated toward sin rather than the God they had a personal relationship with and who they talked to directly. Why is that?

 

[Bahman]

Even initially unfallen and unwounded humans who had no original sin, such as Adam and Eve, gravitated toward sin rather than the God they had a personal relationship with and who they talked to directly. Why is that?

It is a war between good and evil, pleasure and suffering, which are the main forces acting constantly to bring inside out, so called absolute truth.

 

[edwest2]

To Thorns,

If you read their answers, especially Eve’s, in Genesis, as to why they disobeyed God, it means that they had free will, but for a moment were beguiled by the words of the serpent (Eve) and then Adam tries to put the blame on Eve by forgetting what God commanded and using his own judgement, placing his own will above the will of God.

Here is something I hope you find helpful:

catholic.com/quickquestions/how-could-a-perfect-god-create-man-who-is-by-nature-sinful

Peace,
Ed

 

[Counterpoint]

Even initially unfallen and unwounded humans who had no original sin, such as Adam and Eve, gravitated toward sin rather than the God they had a personal relationship with and who they talked to directly. Why is that?

That’s a good question. Let’s see what the response will be.

 

[Thorns]

To Thorns,

If you read their answers, especially Eve’s, in Genesis, as to why they disobeyed God, it means that they had free will, but for a moment were beguiled by the words of the serpent (Eve) and then Adam tries to put the blame on Eve by forgetting what God commanded and using his own judgement, placing his own will above the will of God.

Here is something I hope you find helpful:

catholic.com/quickquestions/how-could-a-perfect-god-create-man-who-is-by-nature-sinful

Peace,
Ed

Thanks Ed. Adam and Eve not being wounded in their nature and instead possessing original grace, how is it that they chose to do wrong if they had such protection? Why would sin even be appealing to them? I’d imagins the same way Jesus and Mary reviled sin and had strength and protections from sin is what Adam and Eve would’ve experienced too?

 

[Aloysium]

Thanks Ed. Adam and Eve not being wounded in their nature and instead possessing original grace, how is it that they chose to do wrong if they had such protection? Why would sin even be appealing to them? I’d imagins the same way Jesus and Mary reviled sin and had strength and protections from sin is what Adam and Eve would’ve experienced too?

They had to be tempted as Jesus was tempted in the desert. The problem now is that we tempt ourselves.
There is no protection; we have to choose. We do choose badly, but Christ has died for our sins, so that we may live.

Romans 7:14-25 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

I don’t think it was easier for Adam to say no to the devil than it is for us to say no to sin in ourselves.

 

[edwest2]

Thanks Ed. Adam and Eve not being wounded in their nature and instead possessing original grace, how is it that they chose to do wrong if they had such protection? Why would sin even be appealing to them? I’d imagins the same way Jesus and Mary reviled sin and had strength and protections from sin is what Adam and Eve would’ve experienced too?

The devil was high in the rank of angels but fell. It is explained here:

newadvent.org/cathen/04764a.htm

Peace,
Ed