assaults what God has made.”5 As this chapter unfolds, I will attempt to keep faith with this definition by using the word sin as a comprehensive concept rather than as an individual category. Sin is so serious and so pervasive in the world that God’s redemptive work is the only antidote for it. Due to the assigned restrictions of this chapter and to this author’s own limitations, this chapter will not deal with God’s redemptive plans in detail. Nonetheless, in the spirit of full disclosure, I write