In the fourth part of the series "What everyone must know about the Christian faith" is about the difficult biblical concept of sin. "
Not only the word "sin" is an emotive word for modern people. The Christian assumption that every man is a sinner, is now almost accepted. This is due to the fact that sin has often been seen as mora-allelic misconduct, in most cases as a sexual seduction. Sexuality itself was considered a long time in Central Europe as a sin.
The Bible has been preserved from such reductions. Sin produced even by moral failings, and sexual abuse is an incredible grave sin. This is not sexuality as such a sin. And who confuse sin with ethical misconduct, confusing cause and effect.
The theology of the 19th and 20 Century has tried to protect them from such misunderstandings. Paul Tillich even said that evangelical theology should use a different word. Tillich, according to people familiar with all the experience of living with existential tensions. The voltage is meant to live among their own aspirations and reality. This experience is just under modern conditions has become even more striking: People suffering from overwork, stress. They also suffer from the fear of not being equal their lives. Tillich called this experience "alienation" - which Paul in the Bible just called "sin." Sin is not necessarily an evil act that is done to others. But sin is an experience suffered by you or others. However, people can also do to yourself and others a bad thing, because they have these experiences and then do not know how to deal with them. "Sin" therefore means primarily a certain kind of need: people need a focus, because they live between expectations and reality. But the Bible always speaks well of the help that God justifies the sinner by grace alone.
Not only the word "sin" is an emotive word for modern people. The Christian assumption that every man is a sinner, is now almost accepted. This is due to the fact that sin has often been seen as mora-allelic misconduct, in most cases as a sexual seduction. Sexuality itself was considered a long time in Central Europe as a sin.
The Bible has been preserved from such reductions. Sin produced even by moral failings, and sexual abuse is an incredible grave sin. This is not sexuality as such a sin. And who confuse sin with ethical misconduct, confusing cause and effect.
The theology of the 19th and 20 Century has tried to protect them from such misunderstandings. Paul Tillich even said that evangelical theology should use a different word. Tillich, according to people familiar with all the experience of living with existential tensions. The voltage is meant to live among their own aspirations and reality. This experience is just under modern conditions has become even more striking: People suffering from overwork, stress. They also suffer from the fear of not being equal their lives. Tillich called this experience "alienation" - which Paul in the Bible just called "sin." Sin is not necessarily an evil act that is done to others. But sin is an experience suffered by you or others. However, people can also do to yourself and others a bad thing, because they have these experiences and then do not know how to deal with them. "Sin" therefore means primarily a certain kind of need: people need a focus, because they live between expectations and reality. But the Bible always speaks well of the help that God justifies the sinner by grace alone.
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