Man is the pinnacle of God’s creation and the only being on the earth made in God’s image. Every person, although endowed with the image of God, inherited a disobedient heart from Adam, the very first man.  This disobedience, referred to the Bible as sin, separates man from his Creator. Apart from Jesus, man is spiritually dead.
Genesis 1:27; Psalm 8:3-6; Isaiah 53:6, 59:2; Romans 3:23, 5:12-21