Our problem is that we are all —at the very core of our being —rebels against God. This rebellion is what the Bible calls sin, and it keeps us from God. A perusal through the pages of Scripture shows severe punishment toward sin and sinners alike. Lot’s wife disobeys God by looking back as Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed and loses her life. God commands the Israelites to do no work on the Sabbath, and a man is put to death for gathering firewood on that holy day. Achan and his family are put to