i) God blots out the sinner from the Book of Life: the Lord said to Moses, "Whosoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book" (Exodus XXXII, 33). - And no unclean thing shall enter into it, nor shall any one who is given over to abomination and falsehood, but only those which are written in the Lamb's book of life (Ap. XXI, 27);

      j) Sin excludes from heaven: He (the Lord) will say: I say to you, I do not know where you come from; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves cast out (Luke 1:11). XIII 27, 28). Neither thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards who speak evil, nor swindlers will inherit the Kingdom of God (1 Cor. VI, 10). Then he will say also to those on the left, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.' And these shall go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life (Matt. XXV, 41,46);

      (k) The earth was cursed because of sin: He said to Adam, Because you listened to the voice of your wife, and ate of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. with sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles she will bring forth for you; and thou shalt eat the grass of the field (Gen. 2:10). III, 17, 18);

      l) labor and sickness appeared as a result of sin: he said to his wife: "Multiplying, I will multiply your sorrow in your pregnancy; in sickness you will bear children; and thy desire is for thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou returnest to the ground whence thou wast taken; for dust thou art and to dust shalt thou return" (Gen. 2:10). III, 16, 19);

      (m) Death is the consequence of sin: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt surely die (Gen. 2:10). II, 17). - Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; so death passed on to all men, because in him all sinned (Rom. V, 12). - But lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but the sin committed brings forth death (James 1:15).- The wages of sin is death, and the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom. VI, 23);

      n) Grievous sins lead to a second, eternal death: but the fearful, and the unfaithful, and the filthy, and the murderers, and the fornicators, and the sorcerers, and the idolaters, and all liars, will have a fate in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone. This is the second death (Apoc. XXI, 8).

 2. The Devil's Influence on the Origin of Sin in the Human Race

      As an evil creature who tries to harm man and lead him into sin, Satan clearly appears in the Book of Genesis, in which it is clearly narrated how, having entered the serpent, he tempted our first parents and finally persuaded them to violate the Commandment of God - to eat of the fruit of the forbidden tree (Gen., ch. III); furthermore, the devil is the same evil creature in the book of Job (I, 6-12 and II, 1-7). In the book of Chronicles (1 Chron. XXI, 1) it is said that "Satan rose up against Israel and stirred up David to number the Israelites." Here Satan is represented as stirring up David to number the Israelites, and thus involving him in the sin which David himself confessed before God (v. 8), and for which the Lord punished the people of Israel with a pestilence (v. 14). Thus, the above passage serves as a new proof that Satan leads man into sin.

      In the same way, in the New Testament there are clear indications that the devil leads man into sin. This is indicated first of all by his very name as a tempter (Matt. IV, 3; 1 Fesal. III, 5), i.e. tempting a person to sin. Satan is a tempter to sin even in relation to Jesus Christ (Matt. IV, 1-11; Mr. I, 12-13; Onion. IV, 1-13). In the wilderness, where Jesus Christ withdrew after His baptism, Satan appeared to Him and began to tempt Him, seducing Him with all his tempting means, such as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life (1 John 1:10). II, 16). But Jesus Christ resolutely resisted all the temptations of Satan, so that the latter had to distance himself from Him and realize his powerlessness to lead the Son of God into sin.

      The influence of the devil on the origin of sin in the human race is clearly recognized by the Savior in His parable of the seed and the tares (Matt. XIII, 24-30, 36-43). The kingdom of heaven, He says, is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. And while the people were asleep, the enemy came, and sowed tares among the wheat, and departed, v. 24-25. The field, according to the Saviour's explanation, is the world, the good seed is the sons of the Kingdom, and the tares are the sons of the evil one; The enemy who sowed them is the devil (vv. 38-39). In this way, evil in the world is represented, according to the words of the Saviour, as sown or originating from the devil. According to the testimony of the Gospel, Satan inspired Judas to betray Jesus to the chief priests and scribes (Luke 2:10). XXII, 3; John. XIII, 2, 27). Up. John also clearly acknowledges the devil as the culprit of the origin of sin when he says: whoever commits sin is of the devil, because the devil sinned first. For this reason the Son of God appeared, to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 1:10). III, 8). Here the sinful actions of man are directly called the works of the devil. This means that their origin is influenced by the devil, which is why they are called his works. In the words of Ap. In which he warns Christians against the wiles of the devil, we can also find an indication of the devil's participation in the origin of sin. Be sober, be watchful, says the Apostle, for your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour (1 Pet. V, 8). Here the devil is represented as an adversary of man, trying to destroy him; but it destroys a person when it leads him into sin.

      From the presented passages of the Old and New Testaments, it is clearly seen that the devil exerts an influence on the origin of sin in man.