How (Not) To Be Moral
Sin: Blocking the Flow of God’s Love
The way we speak about sin is key. The metaphors we use to speak about reality always end up “using” us. Our language isn’t merely a tool we use, it shapes the way we see reality. I want to juxtapose two metaphors for speaking about sin: breaking God’s laws vs. blocking the flow of God’s life/love. It’s not that one is wrong and the other is right. It’s that the overuse of the one has misshaped and malformed us, and we need a correction.
Most of us will have been taught to speak about sin as “breaking God’s laws.” That’s right, insofar as it goes, but it…
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