What was the first sin known to the world?
Question: What was the first sin known to the world?
Answer: The first sin was pride. Through it, Satan fell and lost his angelic honor. The divine inspiration rebuked him for this fall in the Book of Isaiah the Prophet:
“For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God… I will be like the Most High'” (Isa. 14:13–14).
As for the earth, the first sin was envy, into which Satan also fell. Therefore, we say in the Divine Liturgy: “Death, which entered into the world through the envy of the devil,” because he envied mankind.
The first sin into which man fell was evil companionship, when he sat with the serpent and was influenced by its words.
An article by His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, published in El-Keraza Magazine, Year Five, Issue Four, October 26, 1974.
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