Last Sunday we talked about The Fall in Eden in terms of Paul Harvey's phrase: "The Rest of the Story". The story is simply told -- "Evil entered paradise. Satan tempted Eve and Adam by appealing to their pride and vanity to "be like God." After their sin and expulsion from the garden, death made its first relentless assault on the race. There was "brother trouble" when Cain killed his brother Abel. In Genesis 4: 7, we have this stark warning: "Sin is crouching at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it."

So, the story is simply told, but packed with profound universal truth -- truth that defines who we are. The catechetical rhyme is like a punch in the stomach: In Adam's Fall, we sinned all.

But not only truth that defines who we are, but truth that defines who we were i…