Likewise, human beings were given spirit at their creation beginning with the first Adam enabling an intimate, direct, personal interaction with the Holy Spirit. However, the spiritual communion was lost at the Fall by Adam’s choice to live to Self and to be like God, knowing good and evil and facing an eternal spiritual death. It is a Fall that has been shared by all of mankind through history. But God’s redemptive purpose for Man in the incarnation was fulfilled by the life, substitutionary death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Jesus came to pay a debt He did not owe because we owed a debt we could not pay. (Greg Laurie)