Sin with a capital S has received its death-blow – and Sin in this sense, as we saw, is not just the accumulation of our own private sins, but the dark power that, luring us into idolatry, is bent on the distortion of our genuine humanness and the consequent dissolution of God’s good creation, which we were supposed to be looking after. All of that – the dark power and its effects – was condemned in the death of Jesus the Messiah.
