“All Mankind Were in a Lost and in a Fallen State”

Bryan Richards

The lost and fallen state spoken of is the same as spiritual death. When Adam and Eve were cast out of the garden, they (and all their posterity to come) suffered spiritual death. Spiritual death is to be cast from the presence of God. So with mortality, all mankind, like Adam and Eve, had been cast from the presence of God and would never again be able to return to the presence of the Father unless some kind of redemption was made.

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