The flight from sin....

So it was with Adam, and so it is with us. It takes up our entire lifetime, but it is a flight which can only be cancelled for us by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ...

"Genesis 3:9 "And the Lord God called Adam and said to him: Where are you?"

AELW1:172-73

"This is the description of the trial. After Adam has become terrified through the awareness of his sin, he avoids the sight of God and realizes that not only Paradise but the entire world is too narrow to be a safe hiding place. And now, in that mental agony, he reveals his stupidity by seeking relief from sin through flight from God. But he had already fled too far from God. Sin itself is the real withdrawal from God, and it would not have been necessary to add any further flight. Thus it happens—and this is the nature of sin—that the farther man withdraws from God, the farther he still desires to withdraw; and he who has once fled and apostatized keeps on fleeing forever. And so some also maintain concerning the punishments of hell that this will be the most terrible thing: that the ungodly will desire to flee and yet will realize that they cannot escape. So it was with Adam here; although he was caught, nevertheless he does not stop fleeing."