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Knowing Sin: Seeing a Neglected Doctrine Through the Eyes of the Puritans is unavailable, but you can change that!

The first rule of combat is: know your enemy. We don’t talk a lot about sin these days. But maybe we should. The Puritans sure did—because they understood sin’s deceptive power and wanted to root it out of their lives. Shouldn’t we want the same? Though many books have been written on the “doctrine of sin,” few are as practical and applicable as this one. In Knowing Sin, Mark Jones puts his...

do what you will.14 The doing of an action is not the problem, but the root of the doing. Of course, it must be in obedience to the law, since sin is an ethical–spiritual matter. But, as Paul says, “If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing” (1 Cor. 13:3). Sin is a mystery that we cannot understand but that we must acknowledge. Bavinck’s words are moving yet terrifying: We know neither whence it is nor what it is. It exists,
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