I'm reading this book right now called Out of the Salt Shaker and Into the World by Rebecca Pippert and if you get the chance I would encourage reading it. It talks about how to be evangelical as a way of life, not just as something you do once a year on a mission trip or twice a week when you run into a poor victim. Anyways, so I'm reading about how we need to clarify the meaning of words that can easily be construed by non-christians and Becky (as we call her) gave an example of how she explained sin to a friend. Read:
"You Christians say we are all sinners"
"Do you know why? The Bible says it's because something very, very precious has been broken. If we wern't so significant, if we didn't have so much meaning, then it wouldn't be so sad. It's only when somehting precious has been broken that we can say, 'How tragic!' That brokenness is what the Bible calls sin. That's why God hates it so much. Sin caused something extremely precious to become dehumanized."..."[Sin is] anything that makes us less than we were created to be."
Okay so hold up, wait...what?? I always thought God was just jealous because we were worshipping other gods. I mean I knew he loved us, but I thought it was mostly just out of jealousy and wanting those he created to praise him so he could love them. I know, now that I think about it, that's pretty naive. But here she says that the reason God is angry about sin is because he cares so much and the fact that sin is pulling us away and making us less than we were created to be, it just infuriates God.
I don't know about you, but I think I have a totally new perspective on sin.
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