'Chapter 3'

This is where I begin to explain where it all went wrong. We all know that the world we live in is less than perfect. This is often referred to as the 'problem of evil' or 'problem of pain.' This was downplayed by Enlightenment thinkers as only a slight deviation. It's important to our philosophy to understand the world, from the first sin, was corrupted and rotten to its very core. How then did good Creation have such a bad Fall? Somehow the very nature of not only the human person, but nature and all created things have been corrupted by mankind's failure to be obedient. The story of this is in Genesis, chapter 3, hence the title of the post. The details are important but dealt with in other places better than here.
You may ask, those who know the story, how did one fruit getting taken from one tree and eaten do all this damage? Two important factors need to be considered to properly answer this question. The natural effects of man's dominion over the earth and the extent to which extraphysical forces exist and affect the world. From observation we can know that 'the best-laid plans of mice and men oft go awry.' From these observations we should understand why G-d's plan might go equally awry. The fault of Gd's plan was that he had us carry it out. This fault was a necessary fault, as I'll try to show later.
Second an objection to the purely observational. Man was given dominion of the earth. This can be dismissed, if you insist on a materialist worldview, but if you meant to do that, you'd not be reading this. The world has many levels. The idea that magic is just an idea universal in man with no correspondent in reality is absurd and strange to a Romantic. If dragons or a universal flood are represented in the old myths of a huge number of cultures, then maybe they existed in real life, in history or prehistory rather. So magic must have a correspondent in the world. The earth is held together by the properties of physics and but also a magic that links all things. Magic is not some thing that we can command and cast spells. It is supernatural force, spirits, and probably ghosts. The spiritual world exists and we are affected by it. This includes the paranormal. (For more info read 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Coleridge.)
So, by some magical property of the fabric of all that is, man's Fall affected the whole of Creation. I'd like to insert some of the lingo, the jargon of New Romanticism with the word Ea. Ea simply refers to creation, but strips away links to a simply material understanding wound up with that language and imagines the world as two parts interwoven: material and spiritual. Ea is literally that which is. So, Ea is messed up as a result of the breach between men and God. That's enough for one day, but remember to read further to hear the good news.