Adam handed to us a broken version of God’s original design of humankind; our spirit and soul were now two completely individual and unrelated parts.
Adam’s actions starved our spirit of the freely given nourishment that comes from the heart of God, and he set our soul a task it wasn’t designed for — to generate self-worth from our management of good and evil.
The work Jesus accomplished on the cross was the reunifying of ourselves, and once again we have a seamless union between spirit and soul. This seamless reunion has been fully enacted by Christ, and the damage to humanity caused by Adam has been repaired.
Jesus has restored the whole of me, He has brought me back into perfect union with His Father, and He has set my soul free from the burden of self-made righteousness.
He has freed me to live once again as the object of God’s love, just like I was designed to in the beginning.
