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The video has some interesting things to say. The initial analogy to Martin Luther King's assassination and the signing of the civil rights bill into law by then president Johnson in 1968 is probably overstating the influence of the assassination on the law insofar as the law had already been drafted, debated, and passed before King's death. But the video was interesting.
God created man in his image and established him in his friendship. A spiritual creature, man can live this friendship only in free submission to God. the prohibition against eating "of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" spells this out: "for in the day that you eat of it, you shall die." The "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" (Gen 2:17) symbolically evokes the insurmountable limits that man, being a creature, must freely recognise and respect with trust. Man is dependent on his Creator, and subject to the laws of creation and to the moral norms that govern the use of freedom.
Man, tempted by the devil, let his trust in his Creator die in his heart and, abusing his freedom, disobeyed God's command. This is what man's first sin consisted of. (Gen 3:1-11;Rom 5:19) All subsequent sin would be disobedience toward God and lack of trust in his goodness.
In that sin man preferred himself to God and by that very act scorned him. He chose himself over and against God, against the requirements of his creaturely status and therefore against his own good. Created in a state of holiness, man was destined to be fully "divinised" by God in glory. Seduced by the devil, he wanted to "be like God", but "without God, before God, and not in accordance with God". (compare with Gen 3:5)
Scripture portrays the tragic consequences of this first disobedience. Adam and Eve immediately lose the grace of original holiness.(compare Rom 3:23) They become afraid of the God of whom they have conceived a distorted image - that of a God jealous of his prerogatives.
The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the soul's spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination.(Gen 3:7-16) Harmony with creation is broken: visible creation has become alien and hostile to man.(see Gen 3:19) Because of man, creation is now subject "to its bondage to decay".(Rom 8:21) Finally, the consequence explicitly foretold for this disobedience will come true: man will "return to the ground", for out of it he was taken. Death makes its entrance into human history.(Rom 5:12)
Starting from here, considering also the flood of sin that followed Adam & Eve's first sin we can start to analyse the Video's presentation of the Christus Victor theory of atonement.
