What event does all of Scripture point back to as the root of the human problem?
The fall of Adam—when Eve partook and Adam sinned in Genesis 3—is the event Scripture points back to as the vortex of the human problem. That rebellion brought the curse upon all creation, subjecting everything to vanity, and Scripture presents God's immediate promise of a remedy in Genesis 3:15.
Les explains that the event all Scripture points back to as the vortex of the human problem is the fall of Adam. In Genesis 3, Eve partook and then Adam, and the moment Adam sinned, the curse fell. Everything came under that curse—inanimate and animate, the birds, the fish, all creation. Creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who subjected the same in hope. Les notes that even great desert areas like the Sahara are not the way God created things but are the result of the curse and Adam's rebellion. Yet as soon as the curse fell, God came back with a remedy, promising in Genesis 3:15 that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent's head. The tribulation will ultimately pay off the curse, the world will be delivered from it, and all of nature looks forward to that deliverance.