The sinful "revolution" - pt 2

I realize from the previous post that I've mainly just bounced an idea right of the surface of the obvious. The reason people sin, or more specifically choose a different direction than Godliness, is that they are sinners. The reason people sin is that they are following a basic sin nature instead of a Christ redeemed one. But I think it's more fair to say that people sin because they don't know a different way exists, or they can't help it.

I think there is much more to this than we give people credit for. Christian's are quick to judge others' actions because we are expecting them to make decisions based on our viewpoint. We can't understand why they don't see it our way. I read somewhere recently that everyone generally makes the best decision based on the information they are given. That most people, by and large, are acting on the direction which seems best to them. Under this notion, people aren't sitting around drinking poison for the sake of poison. People drink poison because they think it's grape juice. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find a very normal American who purposefully sought arsenic flavored beverages because they loved the taste of arsenic.

Instead, people as a whole have no idea what they are doing. The Bible talks about the Holy Spirit as a light. That He brings about change in people by showing them where they have been blind. It verifies the verse in Amazing Grace, "I once was lost, but now am found; was blind but now I see."

In understanding the fallen nature of man, especially the fallen nature of our society and culture today in America, we have to grow into the revelation that people are for the most part totally unaware of the true results of their actions. The more realistic idea is that there is a rampant blindness to truth. We as the church have to get past this idea that people are all suicidal idiots running as fast as they can off a cliff, even though, justifiably, that's exactly what it looks like.

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