bottom line: God despises sin.
Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least,
Christianity hasn't fully worked so far simply because, at
the pinch, at the decisive moment, we don't want it to work or
ourselves to be lifted up above the failings and disloyalties
we find so alluring,
but rather to be enabled to continue them
without the ugly consequences of so doing, to have the
inexorable laws of life bent aside in our favor, so that we
can squeeze through and escape, without reaping what we have
sown;
because, as we misunderstand it, the whole point of the
good news our Lord brings is the gladsome announcement
that God is happily much more morally indifferent than our
consciences had thought, and is not going to make a fuss about
our sins and such-like trivial peccadilloes, but will surely
let us off-because, in fact, we have not grasped that the core
and essence of the Gospel... is its tremendous and glorious
revelation of how deadly is God's hatred of sin,
so that He
cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and
will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any
sacrifice, to master and abolish it, is set upon so doing in
our hearts, thank God, as elsewhere.
... A. J. Gossip (1873-1954)
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