"This hereditary sin is so deep [and horrible] a corruption of nature that no reason can understand it, but it must be [learned and] believed from the revelation of Scriptures, Ps. 51:5; Rom. 6:12ff ; Ex. 33:3; Gen. 3:7ff."
As I close this week of meditation on Hebrews 9:23-29, I'm deeply troubled at the disbelief in sin. So very few truly take sin as serious as the Scriptures portray it in the passages quoted above. Who can believe that Christ came to "do away with sin" if he does not believe in sin in the first place?
Here's how the Apostle describes his inner life—even after his Baptism and rebirth.
"We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it" (Romans 7:14-20).
In a world where we're taught to believe that also our moral and spiritual life is evolving to ever newer, higher and better levels, this is impossible to believe.
However, I invite you to read the bulk of the articles in today's news and convince me otherwise.
