The document discusses how humanity's disobedience damaged God's original harmony. It describes four types of harmony - with God, ourselves, others, and creation. It then summarizes the biblical story of the Fall, where Satan tempted Adam and Eve to disobey God by eating the forbidden fruit. This act of disobedience damaged humanity's relationship with God and introduced evil and suffering into the world, making it no longer as God had originally planned.

1. God’s Original Harmony
Damaged
The Story of the Fall

2. What happened to damage God’s
original harmony and therefore,
caused creation to not be as God
planned?

3. The 4 Harmonies
Damaged
Harmony HOW people DAMAGE the
Harmony
1. Harmony with God People:
• ignore God and live as though
God doesn’t exist.
• ignore what God teaches.
• do not live as God wants us to
live.
2. Harmony with Ourselves People:
• experience stress and confusion
in their life.
• experience guilt and regret for
things they have done.
• have difficulty seeing themselves
or loving themselves in a positive
way.

4. The 4 Harmonies
Harmony
Damaged DAMAGE the
HOW people
Harmony
3. Harmony with Others People:
• Treat others badly
• Fail to respect the dignity
and rights of others.
• Put others down
• sometimes only see some
aspects of the person
rather than the whole
person.
4. Harmony with Creation • there are many examples
of when people exploit and
destroy creation.

5. What caused creation to
not be as God planned?
We have 4 stories that
outline why creation is not as
God planned.
1. The Story of the Fall / first
human sin
2. Cain and Abel
3. The flood, Noah and the
Ark
4. The Tower of Babel.

6. The Story of the Fall: (Genesis
3: 1-24)
The Story of the Fall explains the consequences
of humankind’s disobedience.
It is a continuation of the Yahwist story of
creation.
The Yahwist story recorded God’s teachings
onhow brekadown of God’s original harmony
resulted in people experiencing sufferings.
Who remembers what happened in the
Yahwist story?

7. The Garden of Eden

8. The Story of the Fall (Genesis 3: 1 –
24)
Let’s read the
story!
Turn to page 168
of your Come
Follow Me books.

9. What happened?
The first parents of the human race were tempted to
disobey God.
This allowed evil came into God’s creation.
Satan tempted the first parents to disobey and ignore God
because they thought it would lead to true happiness.
By experiencing evil, the first parents damaged their
relationship with God through an act of disobedience.
This disobedience resulted in people experiencing
sufferings. They were no longer in harmony with God,
creation, themselves or others.
These sufferings were not part of God’s original plan in the
creation people but the result of disobedience (also known
as original sin) and the loss of harmony with God, others
and creation.

10. What happened?
The first parents came to see the
world and each other differently as
a result of their sin.
They experience evil for the first
time and failed to see each other as
a whole person.
Without God ,they were left to their
purely human understanding.
They would suffer in ways God
never intended and would be
subject to moral temptations by the
devil and capable of sin.

11. What happened?
The couple’s guilt after their sin caused them to
feel distant from God.
Sin causes guilt in people which causes conflicts
with God and not being able to relate to him
through prayer or worship.
This original sin led to tensions between the first
parents and this is the basic cause of tensions
between people and nations.
By taking the fruit from the tree of knowledge of
good and evil, the first parents became confused
about what is good and what is evil.

12. Your task!
Turn The Story of the Fall
into a comic strip!
It must cover important
teachings and aspects from
page 167!
Due: Next Thursday!