Him. Sin, as it were, turns our eyes from God, or blinds us to Him, so that in committing it we can only be said to operate in spiritual darkness and in a profound lack of moral understanding. We are not talking about what our intellect may know—which can be much indeed. I am talking about moral blindness and moral ignorance, which is quite another thing. He is acting as a man of flesh, not as a regenerate person. Not surprisingly, even Paul could view sin as something fundamentally foreign to his
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