I have recently been doing a study on man's disobedience to God and his consequential need for a Savior. Six verses that I have been looking at especially closely are Romans 5:12-14, Romans 8:7-8, and I John 3:4. (Click the verse references to read them.) Throughout this study, I have seen more clearly than ever before that the simple fact we are all human places us in need of redemption.

"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come."

                            -Romans 5:12-14

Death (the result of sin) passed upon all men due to the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. This means that each one of us was born with a need to be reconciled to God. While many people do not consider it fair that "...by one man's disobedience many were made sinners" (Romans 5:19), we must also bear in mind that "...by the obedience of One [i.e. Christ] shall many be made righteous." (same verse) (See also Ezekiel 18:25)

As N.A. Woychuck so accurately put it, "God's estimate of humanity is summed up in one frightful word, 'lost.' It means that man is estranged from God by his sin and is lost to God. Although this frightening state of affairs arouses little concern upon earth, it moved all of heaven from whence came the Savior 'to seek and to save that which was lost' (Luke 19:10)"*

"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me,
I once was lost, but now I'm found
Was blind, but now I see"

                                 -John Newton



*The Incomparable Salvation - N.A. Woychuck