To be lorded over by Sin is to have been engaged to be its representative, “member, part, and tool.” . . . In our very existence “we are exponents of a power which transforms the cosmos into chaos,” our lives actually “making a case” for the power that possesses us and in whose service we are enrolled. This is why Paul characterized the guilt of Sin not in terms of ignorance, but rather in terms of “revolt against the known Lord.”29 Thus the human condition is not only one of captivity, but also one of “active complicity.”30
