Valiant for Truth - Fall

“In Adam’s fall, we sinned all” (New England Primer, 14). This famous line of Benjamin’s Harris’ 1690 New England Primer expresses the basic Christian belief that Adam’s sin had dreadful consequences for the rest of us. We need to meditate upon this regularly.

Most Americans operate on the sincere but completely misguided assumption that deep down inside people are basically good. When we compare ourselves to others, we might be able to measure up pretty well. Sure, there are some who we might begrudgingly admit are better people than we are, but we still do pretty well in most of our self-comparison tests against others.

One of the most beneficial treatments for a Christian’s spiritual anemia is a regular confrontation with the holiness of God because it causes a radical reorientation in the way he thinks about God, His holiness, and his own relationship to Him. The book Holy, Holy, Holy: Proclaiming the Perfections of God is a result of the 2009 Ligonier Ministries National Conference, which was themed “The Holiness of God” (vi).