A Short Primer on Sin
It has occurred to me in the recent past that someone should probably put together a short and lively guide called something like The Idiot's Guide to Sin ; or perhaps a longer treatise, still in the vernacular, with a title like The Idiot's Guide to God's Love . Too often we are completely lost when it comes to these matters. And perhaps that explains the remarkable breath of fresh air that blew in as I read the passage recorded below. from Father Fiction Donald Miller "Yeah, I think it's wrong," I started in. "But let's not turn the idea of right and wrong into coloring book material. This is a very complex subject. Sin, if we want to call it sin, is stuff that we do that God doesn't like and the reason he doesn't like it is because he loves us, he is fathering us, and when we sin, we weaken ourselves, we confuse ourselves, we practice immaturity. He doesn't like that, not because he wants to feel powerful or right but because he ...