The Bible is a book about good and evil. God created the world and everything in it and pronounced His entire creation good.?When sin entered the world through the rebellion of Adam and Eve everything in the world and every person who has ever or will ever live became tainted by sin.
?in spoiled the natural world leading the apostle Paul to say, “For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.” Creation groans under the weight of sin.? Creation itself, as well as every believer longs for the Day of Redemption when all things will be made right and sin as well as the effects of sin will be removed forever.
For close to 2000 years, this was the understanding of sin and its devastating effects on humanity.?But in the last 50 years or so, postmodern thinking has challenged the idea of sin.?Since?postmodernism denies the existence of absolute truth there can be no absolute standard which holds everyone accountable.
The latest trend is to explain all evil as preconditioned behavior we inherit at birth.?While it is true all people are born sinners “by nature and by choice” we are not born with specific traits linked to our biological or psychological makeup that renders us as the mercy of our genetic makeup.?
Christians must never buy into this subtle attack against the power of?God to change a life.?We must never allow sinful behavior to be explained away as nothing more than a genetic predisposition.?
?Sin is not a disease in the biological or psychological sense.?It is the result of our disobedience to God and it can be overcome only by the sacrifice?of Christ.? Christians must never fall into the trap of believing sin has no source and therefore has no cure.?The Christian worldview recognizes the sinfulness of all humanity. But it sees that sinfulness as defined, not as the source of a specific behavior but as the source of all sinful behavior for which Christ is the cure. If we ever buy the lie that sin cannot be helped and therefore cannot be healed we will lose all hope of redemption.