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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...

Apostle Paul, who spoke with boldness concerning the entrance of sin in the world, gave no shred of support for those who sought for an excuse. We cannot find the slightest explanation for what has always been, and shall ever be, the responsible act of man.12 The tendency to make an excuse or an explanation is part and parcel of the very nature of sin. Therefore it is illegitimate. We need not wonder why sinful living, estranged from God, confronts us with these questions of sin’s origin. But the
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