Why Do I Need a Savior?

Here is the story that has the answers.

In the beginning, God created humankind in nothing less than His fullness, holiness, and righteousness imparted in us. God’s fullness remained in Adam and Eve whether God was present with them or not. That state of fullness was the basis of the bond between them and God and has sustained their fellowship. We are of the same nature.

The Fall destroyed the wholeness with which Adam and Eve were created. They no longer mirrored the image of God in its fullness. God, who is unchangeable, remained holy and righteous, but humans’ holiness and righteousness were shattered. They were defiled by a rebellion and a willful submission to sin. As a result, their wickedness on earth became great, and every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil all the time (Gen. 6:5). All humanity inherited this corrupt condition.

The humankind’ status of the fullness was lost due to disobedience to God’s command not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When sin entered, something happened to one of the integral parts of the human nature: The spirit died.

“Then the Lord said, ‘My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal corrupt]’” (Gen. 6:3).

As a result, the fullness of the humans designed after the image of God was destroyed; the perfection in the alignment of body, soul, and spirit was lost. God’s Spirit reaches us through the human spirit. In the “deep calls to deep,” King David’s spirit experienced the roar of God’s Spirit within his own very being (Psalm 42:7).

The death of the human spirit alienates humans from God; humans are cut off from the very source that gives them life and health. Since we are body, soul, and spirit, this deprivation of the spirit affects the condition of the human soul and body as well and ultimately leads to their death.