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Just as your spirit and dependence are

united, so your soul and independence are

united. As originally created by God, man

was of no use to Satan. For man to be useful

to him, Satan must have proud men,

independent men. And if man comes to live

by his soul, his attitude will become one of

arrogance. For this reason, selfishness is

the mother of all sin. It is the spirit that

comprehends all sin.

Yes, selfishness took the place of love. Man

became infected with sin. All of his faculties

which before the fall were exercised to

gratify and glorify God, were governed by

love; but after the fall, are governed by

selfishness-now exercised to gratify and

glorify self. There is a fundamental moral

derangement. He has “a bent towards evil” {2

MR 269.1}, a propensity to self-gratification

and self-glorification. Yes, man is infected

with sin! Not only is man infected by sin;

man is also affected by sin. Sin caused him to