Scripture says God’s “eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong doing” (Habakkuk 1:13 NIV).* The spirit form of God is too much for us sinful mortals to stand, and he must remain hidden from us. Yet God wants a relationship with his creation, and he has enabled us to know him through the sacrificial death of Christ, which atones for our sin. Christ’s atoning for sin means that Jesus paid the “wages of sin” for us, which was death, and that he “ransomed” us out of the “prison” of