“Sin is: in despair not wanting to be oneself before God…. Faith is: that the self in being itself and wanting to be itself is grounded transparently in God.”3 Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God. Sin is seeking to become oneself, to get an identity, apart from him.
Brilliant. I think one if the most shocking and incredible paradoxes about bin the Christian faith is that the more you put your identity in God, the more freedom you gain in being your unique self. Something I’m working on myself.
