What is learned, therefore, is that whenever our doctrine is in error our action will also be in error. Adam's tool for maintaining his commission was God's Law. As long as he followed the perfect revealed will of God, as it related to the real world of time and history in the Garden, the Creation would have remained pristine. Personal Apostasy begins in the heart. Although there are many variables contributing to this dreadful ailment, perhaps the over-riding reason is sloth .
Mankind is basically lazy.
The entire American system is structured so as to make mankind lazy, and dependant upon others to do the work. Such a message and life-style is so pervasive, and so attractive, that the majority of Christians have fully bought into the program, not knowing that it is to the destruction of their faith. Even the external church fosters this mentality in its parishioners by lulling them into the ease of sloth. Entertainment and singing, crowds the order of worship, along with an array of announcements and anecdotes. With only an hour slotted for an entire Service there is little time for the reading of the Scriptures, and perhaps only time enough for a 20 minute sermon.