St Swithin's Church in Barston

In the beginning:

In the beginning when God made human beings, he made them perfect and good and sinless. He wanted us to be his friends and look after the earth.

God did not make people robots or machines. He gave us a precious gift, free will, to choose between right and wrong, good and bad. He did not want to force us to love him. He wanted us to love him freely.

But people chose to disobey God; they chose wrong. They preferred to please themselves rather than God. They sinned. And so sin entered into the world. It is a disease we all have, because "all have sinned" (Romans 3.23).

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