What is the Bible's consistent teaching from Genesis to Ephesians about man's natural condition?
The Bible's one continuing premise from Genesis into Ephesians is that man in his natural state is spiritually dead because of Adam's original sin. This leaves the unbeliever unable to comprehend spiritual truth, while the believer, taught by the Holy Spirit, grows in understanding.
Les explains that I Corinthians 2 contrasts the wisdom of men with the wisdom of God. Because man in his natural state is spiritually dead through Adam's original sin, this book is closed to the unbeliever; he cannot comprehend it, and it goes over his head. But for even the most infantile believer, it becomes understandable, and understanding grows with Christian experience. The point rests on I Corinthians 2:13: the words spoken are not those man's wisdom teaches, but those the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. That same continuing premise runs all the way from Genesis clear into Ephesians.
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
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What is the Bible's continuing premise about man's natural state?
All the way from Genesis clear into the book of Ephesians there is one continuing premise that man in his natural state is spiritually dead, having died by virtue of Adam's original sin.