Article February 10, 2020 Issue

Confront sin and discover your purity

Kenneth Taylor

Sin is a concept that humanity has puzzled over for centuries. Interestingly, the Bible doesn’t begin by discussing it right away.

In the first chapter of the Bible we read, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” and “God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good” (Genesis 1:26, 31). And in Ecclesiastes we find this refrain: “Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it” (3:14). Can we conclude from these biblical truths that we are eternal, and that our true nature is as pure, holy, and good as God’s nature?

The first chapter of Genesis refers to immortal man, created in the image of God, Spirit. The second and subsequent chapters present a mortal, sinful, fallen-from-grace human concept, which has defined much of the modern religious view of man.

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