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Studies in Dogmatics: Sin is unavailable, but you can change that!

Professor Berkouwer contends, in the light of Scripture, that there can be no meaning in the meaningless, or rationality in that which is intrinsically irrational. And so, a doctrine of sin which suggests that there can be only detracts from the awfulness of sin and the magnitude of God's forgiveness. The proper response to sin is a true confession of my guilt; for the person who truly confesses...

Thus the legitimacy of the question of sin’s origin is itself a question of very great importance. Is it the case that as soon as we search for the “components” of sin we can only emasculate or amputate the reality of our guilt?9 It is simply impossible, we should judge, to sever this bond between an “explanation” for sin’s origin and an illegitimate excuse. Obviously an “explanation” softens down our guilt in the very process of pointing out its constituents. Many voices are heard saying today
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