To Sin or not To Sin - That is The Question

Two centuries ago with 'The Enlightenment', philosophers rejected the biblical doctrine of sin and began to teach that people are basically good - that only social structures are evil. If that is true, then to eradicate evil you do not have to change individual behaviour - only social structure. Moral effort was directed away from personal ethics and toward economics and politics.

Jesus said that the one who is faithful in small things will be faithful in big things. It’s a matter of character. You see, the man who will cheat on his wife will cheat in his professional life. The man who has no self-restraint in his personal life will have no self-restraint in his political life. You can't have social morality without personal morality."

Charles Colson, "A Dance with Deception"
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Lk.16:10 "Whoever is faithful in small matters will be faithful in large matters; whoever is dishonest in small ones will be dishonest in large ones"
Ge.6:5 "God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth"
Is.53:6 "All we like sheep have gone astray, and turned to our own ways"
Ro.3:23 "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God"
1 Jn.1:8 "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and truth is not in us"
Pr.28:13 "He who covers-up his sin will not prosper; whoever confesses and turns away from his sin shall have mercy"
Pr.30:12 "There is a generation that is sinless in their own eyes, but is not cleansed of their filthiness"

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