The decision to sin resulted in death but what kind of death? What does it mean that we are dead in our trespasses and sins? This act brought the whole race and their descendants into a state of sin and judgement. The reality of this Fall can be expressed in these seven separations:

• God in His perfect righteousness will have nothing to do with evil and is, therefore, justly angry with us, His creatures. This wrath of God is daily experienced by us and our fellows for we were created for loving fellowship with our Maker. We have rebelled against our creator and sense His just indignation against us, an indignation which will last eternally for those not reconciled to Him through Christ.

• Our hearts are filled with self-worship and pride rather than humble devotion to the Lord. In our alienation from Him we have within us a deep reluctance to love and serve our Creator.

• We are also alienated from ourselves, that is, within each one of us we find the disintegrating power of sin. We do not faithfully express God's holiness and so we experience guilt and shame. We are not what we should be, we are unable to do what we wish, nor do we even accurately know what is deep in our own hearts. This inner brokenness demonstrates itself in the extremes of inordinate self-love and self-hatred, and in psychological disorder.

• This separation within our own persons is also expressed in our bodies. Pain, sickness and debility that come with advancing age demonstrate this physical corruption. Death, our final enemy, manifests this reality most fully as it tears apart body and spirit and brings our bodies down to the grave.

• We are alienated from each other. Even in our most cherished relationships, marriage, family and friendship, we discover ugly passions in our hearts: pride, envy, resentment, bitterness and hatred. These passions are at work in every facet of human society: in hostility between individuals, social groups, classes, races and nations. This inner enmity may break out in discrimination, violence, warfare and even genocide.

• There is separation between us and the creation around us. Instead of our dominion being made known in faithful stewardship of the earth, we pollute and damage our environment and recklessly destroy our fellow creatures.

• Even creation itself suffers separation as it has been subjected to the curse. The earth resists our attempts at dominion so that our daily work can be burdensome and even unproductive, and the natural order experiences disintegration and violence.