Accordingly, Eve’s eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil denotes that she consummated a satanic love relationship with the angel which bound her in blood ties to him. God cursed the fallen angel, saying, “upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life” (Gen. 3:14). “Upon your belly you shall go” means that the angel would become a miserable being, unable to function properly or to perform its original service.
To “eat dust” means that ever since the angel was thrown down from heaven, (Isa. 14:12); (Rev. 12:9) he has been deprived of life elements from God. Instead, he has had to subsist on evil elements gleaned from the sinful world.
1.5 The Root of Sin
We have learned from the above elucidation of the Bible that the root of sin was not that the first human ancestors ate a fruit, but rather that they had an illicit sexual relationship with an angel (symbolized by a serpent). Consequently, they could not multiply God’s good lineage but instead multiplied Satan’s evil lineage.
There is ample evidence which helps us recognize that the root of human sin stems from sexual immorality. We know that the original sin has been perpetuated through lineal descent from one generation to the next. This is because the root of sin was solidified by a sexual relationship that binds one in ties of blood.
Furthermore, those religions which emphasize the need to purge sin regard fornication as a cardinal sin, and they have taught the virtues of chastity and restraint in order to curb it. This is an indication that the root of sin is found in lustful desires. |