The fall of our first parents broke the golden chain of implicit obedience of the human will to the divine. Obedience has no longer been deemed an absolute necessity. The human agents follow their own imaginations which the Lord said of the inhabitants of the old world was evil and that continually (Manuscript 1, 1892). {1BC 1083.9}

Vore første forældres fald brød den gyldne kæde af absolut lydighed af (1084) menneskelig vilje mod det guddommelige. Lydighed anses ikke længere for en absolut nødvendighed. Menneskeagenter følger deres egne forestillinger, som Herren sagde om den gamle verdens indbyggere var ond og det til stadighed (MS 1, 1892).