this is the only real sin, and in it all sins become natural, inevitable. This sin destroys the true life of man. It deviates life’s course from its only meaning and direction. And in Christ this sin is forgiven, not in the sense that God now has “forgotten” it and pays no attention to it, but because in Christ man has returned to God, and has returned to God because he has loved him and found in him the only true object of love and life. And God has accepted man and—in Christ—reconciled him with himself. Repentance is thus the return of our love, of our life, to God, and this return is
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