When moral values break down, society disintegrates. The ship is driving for the rocks, and man cannot stop it. We may have reached the end of our rope as Israel had done in Ezekiel s day. Sin does make a man into his own god. But it turns out to be a god of destruction.
Sin always ends in violence.
It may start out very subtle, but in the end it becomes violent. In Genesis 5, Lamech kills two men. In Genesis 6, the earth is filled with violence. Adam and Eve in their lust, pride and selfishness never dreamed of such destruction and personal loss that would follow their disobedience. Sin has a way of creeping into our lives in the most subtle ways, then we become entangled, then enslaved, and then destroyed.