cause and effect in life: you do this, and you get that. But still, according to this doctor, there does seem to be a kind of wages to be paid for our sin. And there’s something in us that denies that and flees from that story. As a pastor, I find it interesting that I have never visited a parishioner in the hospital suffering from emphysema or from lung cancer—two horrible diseases—who ever had emphysema or lung cancer because that person smoked. “My doctor tells me that I have a different kind