No Sin, Only Sinners Denying Sin

It seems apparent to me.

Modern day people look at the Christian message and reject it for two reasons:

1) Their modern logic tells them that such a story, is just that, a story.

    Response: On the surface, it may seem that way, but when truly digging in the details, there is A LOT where logic can be used to substantiate Christianity.

 

  There was a book called ''Who moved the stone.'' It was two skeptics looking to disprove Christianity. One converted based on what he found. Link to Book

2) The second is sin.  People all over the place are denying sin, or if they are Christian, take part in a church that says: All of your sins are forgiven when you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior! (Born Again-Calvinist-Baptist-Evangelicals)

 

   Modern people equate 'nice' as not evil, or as good.  I am nice to 90% of the people I know, therefore, I am good.

   It won't be rare to find me writing 'evil' like this: 'evil'

Because people do not like this term categorically, and so by putting the ' ' around it.  I am acknowledging that the word has a personal interpretation, but I by no means am trying to sugar coat it, I mean to use the word evil.

 

   In Morality, there is Good and Evil. Evil is usually interpreted as of the devil, mean spirited, an evil person as the devil themself, or to mean that if they are evil the they are DAMNED, going to Hell.

   But it is not the case, evil simply means against Good, and not a personal good, but the Great Good.  It would be 'nicer' to say, harmony.  Sin is against what is harmonious.

   In this very blog, I try to illustrate this in the post about 'Untamed Sexuality.'

  Modern day people are so offended by the word evil, they categorically deny the term, and then deny sin all together, or almost all together.  If not all together, then they only recognize those really, really 'evil' things people do like serial killers, or cruel world leaders.

   It shocks me that people want to deny sin, i.e. evil

   The hard truth, I think,  is that majority of people are not only sinners (as we all are sinners) but the majority do not want to hear about their lifestyles as being profoundly sinful.  And they then have a very simple solution for this, they take away the voices that say they are living in sin. 

  In other words, it is not a denial on evidential circumstances, it is a denial based on self-preservation and self interests.

  Also known as PRIDE, the deadliest of all sins

  Our culture is one of pleasure and release.  This release is typically either by violence or through an imprisonment of sexual channels

  Basically, we as a culture do not like sin, because we are sour pusses / immature in our nature / confused on what is a true good. Or as the pope says, maybe we are just idiots.

 WHAT modernity loses in Christianity is the answer to sin.  Not an answer by denying it, or a self-interested redefining of what sin is or is not, the Christian answer to sin is one of mercy.

  Mercy is what is not appreciated.  It is not appreciated that we are capable to recognize ourselves as sinners, but we have a calling to pursue the mercy offered to us despite our sinfulness.

  This is great, and this is harmonious! One can thrive in knowing that even with the pain of sin, we still have the advantage of recapturing/reconciling oneself despite sin. 

  When talking to modern people, they don't want to hear the words ''evil'' or 'sin.'' So instead. one can say disharmony, harmful, unhealthy, unwholesome,'troublesome'

  You have to soften the language as if to a child !!!!!!

   I wonder if it helps modern westerners to think of sin in a new way, sin as against liberty and justice. What is sin if it is not invading one's freedom? Freedom of living. Is a robber not a sinner? Is a rapist or a murder not sinful?  These people take away one's freedom, you see. Taking away the freedom of walking down the street safely, freedom of preserving their body,  freedom of meeting their own life end.   What is Justice if there is not sin? On what account can one claim injustice without sin?  I put it to them who deny sin, that this has to be sincerely re-evaluated!