Sin is a destroying spirit that emanates from Satan, whose names Abaddon and Apollyon mean Destroyer, and it steadily degrades a person. It tarnishes the mind so that one no longer sees life the same way, and it strips away innocence. Adam and Eve, the most innocent of people, felt shame and hid from God immediately after sinning. Children grow into adults who are cynical, suspicious, self-centered, and uninvolved, and who lose their zest for life. Sin also destroys ideals. At first it is met with horror, but each sin makes the next easier, until the conscience adjusts and the person sins without a qualm. Sin is addictive like a drug, as the rich young man's covetousness showed when it crushed his desire for eternal life. It destroys the will: an act sown becomes a habit, the habit a character, and the character a destiny. Because sin is deceitful, promising what it cannot deliver, it lures people into ever deeper perversions. It hardens the heart, making it insensitive and unteachable, until repentance becomes impossible. It enslaves, so that the sinner does what sin wants, not what he wants. It breeds more sin, spreading like leaven, as the sequence from Jacob's favoritism toward Joseph shows. It also produces sickness, pain, and weakness, often through sins accumulated over a lifetime. Finally, it brings death, first and then the second death for those who keep sinning without repentance.