#fallen man

[steadyhunterzombie]

Pavel Tchelitchew, 'Fallen Man', Date Unknown, Gouache on Paper, 65 x 50 cm

[allegorypaintings]

The Triumph Of Justice

Artist: Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667)

Date: c. 1651-1653

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands

[colonellickburger]

Joel Meyerowitz. Fallen Man. Paris, 1967

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Of all horrible religions the most horrible is the worship of the god within.

G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908).

[dramoor]

“As a result of the fall, the image of God in man was darkened and distorted, but not altogether lost.  Fallen man was like an icon that had been darkened by time and candle-black and which needed to be cleaned for it to shine in its original beauty. This purification occurred with the incarnation of the Son of God Who, through the action of the Holy Spirit, restored the fallen image to its former beauty. But man himself needs to make an ascetic effort so that the grace of God may not be futile in him and that he may be able to receive it.”

~Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)

(Art: Born Again, by Dean Kermit Allison)

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.

R.C. Sproul

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The [Christian] message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity – hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory – because at the Father’s will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.

J.I. Packer

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Evolution is simply the latest means our fallen race has devised in order to suppress our innate knowledge and the biblical testimony that there is a God and that we are accountable to Him (cf. Romans 1:28). By embracing evolution, modern society aims to do away with morality, responsibility, and guilt. Society has embraced evolution with such enthusiasm because people imagine that it eliminates the Judge and leaves them free to do whatever they want without guilt and without consequences.

John MacArthur