The Only Solution to the Greatest Problem TRACTS 25-pack by John MacArthur

SIN IS THE GREATEST PROBLEM FACING HUMANITY Sin has caused wars between nations, conflict between individuals and groups, fear and anxiety, illness and death, and all kinds of natural and human-influenced disasters. In the Bible, the beginning chapters of the book of Genesis report that the curse of sin after the Fall of Adam and Eve disrupted three basic relationships. First, men and women were separated from God when they became subject to spiritual death (Genesis 3:6–13). Second, they became at odds with nature. From then on it would resist their efforts to cultivate and control it (Genesis 3:17–19). Third, people were separated from each other as sin brought envy and conflict into the world. Everyone who dies, no matter from what cause, dies as a victim of sin. Romans 6:23 says, “The wages of sin is death.” Every human being is subject to the fearful power of sin. THE DEFINITION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF SIN The definition of sin is simple: “sin is lawlessness”(1 John 3:4). Practi