When & where did sin originate? Life in a world of suffering and sin was not always the experience of people on earth. We read in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, that in the beginning… ‘God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good.’ (Genesis 1:31). Adam and Eve, the first people, lived in an idyllic world, in which they lacked for nothing. They had everything they could ever need. But something went tragically wrong with the world God made, and this damage was the consequence of sin. Sin did not start with Adam and Eve but was already present in the universe at the time of their fall. As far as we can tell, it first appeared in the angel Lucifer, whom we now know as Satan. Lucifer was a mighty angel in Heaven, and pure in heart, until a day came when sin was found in him. Speaking through the prophet Ezekiel, God says of him: ‘You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; you were on the holy mountain of God; you walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you.’ (Ezekiel 28:14,15).