Sin and Redemption

Men are not condemned because they have not followed the law, no, they are condemned already and the law is set up to show them that... St. Cyril of Alexandria explains,

"The Law entered in so that the many-sided nature of the fall of those who were under the Law might be made clear. Nobody could ever be made righteous because of the weakness of human nature. Rather, everyone condemned themselves by their own crimes of transgression. The Law came as the revealer of our common weakness, so that the human race would appear even more clearly to need the aid of the medicine of Christ."

"Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already" John 3:18
 John Wesley saw sin as a malignant disease. "Salvation" means, in the original, "healing".

In orthodox thought God did not angrily punish Adam and Eve for their sin, but rather he was moved with compassion. He immediately covered their shame with animal skins and revealed His plans for their redemption. Expulsion from the garden was required that all men did not live forever in the state of sin, separation from God. The day of judgment is also required to remove those who would continue in this state rather than availing themselves of the cure, the Spirit of God, to the separation from Him that causes sin and death, in order that God's children can realize His full purpose for them.

"for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them." Luke 9:56

"I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." John 10:10