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When Adam and Eve sinned by disobeying God, they felt ashamed and hid from God. But immediate consequences occurred. After all, sin is not just breaking the law of God; it’s also engaging in activity that’s dangerous (sometimes lethal) to the soul. Sin causes separation from the Lord.

Here is how Genesis 3:16–19 describes God’s punishment:

 To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire will be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

 And to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you, and you shall eat the plants of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust and to dust you shall return.”

The main gifts Adam and Eve lost were sanctifying grace (that which makes a person holy and allows him to be in the presence of God), immortality (freedom from death), and impassibility (freedom from all pain). Without sanctifying grace, heaven was not possible, ever. Adam and Eve were subjected to disease, illness, pain, misery, suffering, toil, labor, and death itself.

As if all this weren’t enough, Original Sin had another effect, which we explain next.