Why is there evil in the world? We don’t know why, but we know that it is a terrible Power and that, against it, unaided human beings are helpless. The Power of Sin and Death is external to the human being, working on us from outside, so that, in the words of one of our great prayers, “we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves.”8 We are in bondage to Sin and Death. We are “tied and bound by the chain of our sins.”
