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Whatever Became of Sin? is a mini-classic for our time. Its most pervasive assessment is that just because we don't use the word "sin" anymore or -- at least -- shy away from it, does not mean it is gone as a reality in our lives.
For more years than you and I like to admit we have been more or less sold on the idea sin could be handled like most anything else. All we need to do is appropriate enough money to produce the right equipment and skills so that they in turn could expedite the whole matter.
Well, believe it or not, adultery is still adultery regardless of the "ideal" conditions surrounding the act. The list can go on and without becoming legalists who get a weird sense of enjoyment out of cataloging the slightest infractions.
Perhaps the whole crux of the matter is that to admit we are sinners is to admit we are in need of a Savior who can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. I suspect that's just a bit too humbling for a society priding itself in expertise at all levels. [Karl Menninger, Whatever Became of Sin? (New York Dutton, 1973).]
-- Lacy
Whatever Became of Sin? is a mini-classic for our time. Its most pervasive assessment is that just because we don't use the word "sin" anymore or -- at least -- shy away from it, does not mean it is gone as a reality in our lives.
For more years than you and I like to admit we have been more or less sold on the idea sin could be handled like most anything else. All we need to do is appropriate enough money to produce the right equipment and skills so that they in turn could expedite the whole matter.
Well, believe it or not, adultery is still adultery regardless of the "ideal" conditions surrounding the act. The list can go on and without becoming legalists who get a weird sense of enjoyment out of cataloging the slightest infractions.
Perhaps the whole crux of the matter is that to admit we are sinners is to admit we are in need of a Savior who can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. I suspect that's just a bit too humbling for a society priding itself in expertise at all levels. [Karl Menninger, Whatever Became of Sin? (New York Dutton, 1973).]
-- Lacy
