MAN IS SINFUL
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Rom. 3:23)
God made man that He and man might enjoy a close relationship. But the relationship was broken because man chose to go his own way. We go our own way when we do not obey God or care about him. This attitude is what the Bible calls sin. “All we, like sheep, have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way.” (Isaiah 53:6a)
MAN IS SEPARATED
“For the wages of sin is death.” (Death here means spiritual separation from God.) (Rom. 6:23)
This diagram shows that, because God is Holy and man is sinful, there is a great separation between the two. The arrows show how man tries to reach God through his own efforts: being religious, living a good life, attending church, not harming anyone, etc. but man’s efforts cannot take him to God.
The third law shows us the only way back to God….