At one level we who confess Christ quickly concede the reality of sin. But we profoundly underplay it. “Nobody’s perfect,” we acknowledge. “We all make mistakes.” But the problem is not that we are going the right direction with occasional missteps. We are running the wrong direction. Evil is the ocean, not the islands, of our internal existence. “The hearts of the children of man are full of evil,” the Bible says, “and madness is in their hearts while they live” (Eccles. 9:3). The reality of this
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