Seven New Deadly Sins… Intro
October 1, 2008
In a letter to a group of people in Rome (a community attempting to align themselves with the life, words and teachings of Christ) Paul writes:
“Everyone is under the power of sin”
He quotes the Jewish prophet Isaiah
“No-one is righteous, not one…
they have no idea where to find peace.
They have no idea how big God is at all”
He continues:
“The Jewish law isn’t an exhaustive list of right and wrongs we can keep. Its purpose is to show us how screwed up we are.”
What is sin?
There are only a handful of sins. They rear their heads in different forms.
They mix together like colours so even though there’s nothing new under the sun we are still capable of finding new ways of sinning.
Red and yellow mix to make orange… a touch of blue and we have brown.
As time moves forwards the shades of sin remain constant. I’m pretty sure I haven’t met someone who has not sinned- and even more sure I haven’t met someone who hasn’t seen and felt the effects of sin. It’s all around us. Even within periods of great religious fervour it crouches at our door, sneaking up on us when we least expect it.