ATSS: Tammy Wiese, “Whose Sin?”

1 October 2024  |

• The disciples asked Jesus, “Whose sin caused the man to be born blind – his or his parents?” (John 9.1-12). 
• On another occasion, Jesus asked the disciples whether a tower fell and killed eighteen people because they were more sinful than themselves (Luke 13.1-5). 
• Jesus asked whether one should do good on the Sabbath, and release a woman bent and “bound by Satan” (Luke 13.10-17). 
• Jesus told the adulteress to “go and sin no more!” (John 8.3-11). 
• Jesus forgave the sin of the paraplegic before he died to pay for sin (Mark 2.1-12). 
• Did Adam’s sin make the thorns to grow, make the animals to eat each other, and make us sin today? 

Sin – we intimately experience it, fight against it, and judge it in others. 

If asked “What is sin?” a typical answer is, “Sin is the transgression of the law.” However, if we research sin, we will find that sin has a history of definitions and a variety of ways to be managed. The definitions and metaphors of sin have changed over time but has sin changed?  What is sin? Does it really matter how we define sin?  Despite the redemption from sin as the reason for the incarnation, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, there is no consensus among Christians regarding a doctrine of sin and atonement. How can the foundation of our salvation, the work of Jesus Christ to save us from our sins, be so undefined?

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• Jim Burklo
• Lena Toews
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