The Nature of Sin & The Dark State of Evil

In our last passage, Paul catalogues a list of outcomes, “deeds/works,” that are randomly produced in God-less, sin-darkened, unregenerate men or women whose lives are irrational and chaotic: lives, “…full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” (Macbeth).

Fallen man's life is pock-marked by sins of varying stripes, whose consequences and ultimate outcome is strife, grief, sickness and death.

Sins that occur in a fallen state pop up like poisonous mushrooms. They sprout randomly and only in the dark; and when light comes, they vanish.

The 'deeds/works of the flesh' are ugly chutes that grow under rocks; populated only by the most disgusting insects and creeping things.

In our passage, Paul contrasts the unity of the fruit of the Spirit with the multiplicity of the deeds of the flesh, which have no consistency except evil.