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What Is Sin?
A short, clear, biblical answer
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Be killing sin or it will be killing you.
John Owen
What is sin? Not the short list we learned as children, and not the obvious wrongs we have managed to avoid.
The two greatest commandments:
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 22:37-40
Scripture's answer runs deeper. Sin is the absence of godly love, measured by the God who is love. This short book turns that one idea over and follows it through the whole story: back to the first sin in the garden and the inheritance none of us escaped, inward to the heart where Jesus said sin really lives, through the sin that still remains in those who belong to Christ, to the weight of sin against an eternal God, and to the cross, the only answer that has ever existed. It closes where every Christian currently lives: in repentance, and the daily killing of sin by the Spirit.
Underneath every page runs one conviction. Sin is the absence of godly love. A short, clear, biblical answer, traced from Genesis to the cross.