20 Sin is so boring

Sin can sometimes be so boring. So unimaginative. I read two articles in the past 24 hours that illustrate again that all sin goes back to Genesis 2 where First Man and Woman decide they know better than God, and that surely he didn’t REALLY mean they should not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And Satan seductively whispers, “You surely shall not die!” And they believed Satan and not God. Next stop, death.

One recent account of sin is the New Jersey “fetal farming” bill, which not only legalizes the cloning of human embryos, it allows those embryos to be implanted into a woman’s uterus, grown nearly to term, and then destroyed before birth, in order that their various body tissues and organs might be used for “therapeutic” ends. And 30 years ago we were told there was no “slippery slope” to legalized abortion, and now we’ll just grow babies and kill them for body parts. (Life in Christ series, Orthodox Christian Church, Jan. 2004)

Another is about “Open Theology,” and how some well known evangelical theologians are being allowed to remain in the safe harbor of orthodoxy, even though they teach that God gave humankind complete free will, taking a big risk in that He can’t know the outcome. This pretty much wipes out Christian teaching of the last 2,000 years, and discounts any Old Testament prophecy about Christ. The Board of the Evangelical Theological Society just didn’t have the heart (or some other body part) to kick their dear brothers out of the fold. (Christianity Today, Jan. 2004 p. 22)

I don’t think you even have to be a Christian to see that creating a human being to cannabilize its body parts or putting your will ahead of God’s knowledge are really bizarre thinking and behavior. But it might be an illustration of why the Christian church has so little impact on the morality of most people, including its own.