SOME WORDS ABOUT SIN, DAY #2 of LENT THE FALL (continued) I. WHERE SIN ABOUNDED, GRACE ABOUNDED ALL THE MORE The reality of sin 386 Sin is present in human history; any attempt to ignore it or to give this dark reality other names would be futile. To try to understand what sin IS, one must first recognize THE PROFOUND RELATION OF MAN TO GOD, for only in this relationship is the evil of sin unmasked in its true identity as humanitys rejection of God and opposition to Him, even as it continues to weigh heavy on human life and history. 387 Only the light of Divine Revelation clarifies the reality of SIN and particularly of the sin committed at mankinds origins. Without the knowledge of Revelation gives of God we CANNOT recognize sin CLEARLY and are TEMPTED to explain it as merely a developmental flaw, a psychological weakness, a mistake, or the necessary consequence of an inadequate social structure, etc. ONLY in the knowledge of Gods plan for man can we grasp that SIN is an ABUSE of the FREEDOM that God gives to created persons so that they are capable of loving Him and loving one another. ______________________ Source: The Catechism of the Catholic Church, #386-387
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