The Ache of Separation and Healing of Salvation

They hid from the Lord God among the trees.
- Genesis 3:8

And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds…” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds… And God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:24–25

Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
- Genesis 2:25

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as He was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
- Genesis 3:8

The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
- Genesis 6:5

Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
- Genesis 3:17-18

The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the heavens languish with the earth. The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws…
- Isaiah 24:4–5

God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
- Genesis 6:12

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
- Genesis 8:20

The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.”
- Genesis 8:21

My God, my God, why have You forsaken Me?”
- Matthew 27:46

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.’
- Galatians 3:13

And through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His blood, shed on the cross.
- Colossians 1:20

When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
- John 19:30