Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 6022 The conscience is one of God’s remarkable gifts to human beings: an internal moral faculty that registers the difference between right and wrong and alerts the person to the gravity of their choices. What happens when that faculty is persistently overridden and ultimately silenced is one of the most alarming descriptions in the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11083 Gluttony is perhaps the most consistently ignored sin in contemporary evangelical culture. Behaviours that would draw immediate pastoral concern in relation to other appetites are routinely overlooked when the appetite in question involves food. Yet Scripture addresses it with surprising directness, and the underlying principle it violates is one that touches the whole…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11082 This question is framed as though it must be one or the other, and most of the energy in contemporary discourse goes into arguing for the disease model. Addiction, we are told, is a brain disorder rather than a moral failing, and framing it as sin is unhelpful at best and cruel at…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 6029 Pride occupies a unique place in the catalogue of human sin. The Christian tradition has long regarded it not merely as one sin among others but as the root from which most other sins grow. Scripture is remarkably consistent in its treatment of pride, addressing it across virtually every genre and period of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11065 Paul writes in Ephesians 6:12 that “we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness.” The Christian life is not a gentle stroll toward improvement — it is described in the New Testament with the language of warfare, struggle,…