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Fr. Hardon Archives - Sin and its Consequences
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Sin and its Consequences
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
Our theme is sin and its consequences. We shall first look at what the Old Testament
tells us and then the New. Before we start however, I thought I would read a
few lines from a book, which you may know exists. I won’t say where I got it.
The Gospels Without Myth, by Louis Evely . In his chapter on the “Forgiveness
of Sins” he writes, “ Religion today is too often merely the worship of guilt,
an obsession with sin and an exercise in the rubrics of repentance. It is though
God took pleasure in seeing man humiliated, and in recalling to him his unworthiness.
No, God is not a judge He judges no one. It’s unfortunate that we have kept
that ambiguous phrase in the Apostles’ Creed, ‘He shall come to judge the living
and the dead’.” The author was a priest. His writings have done incalculable
damage to thousands of souls. Sometimes it is good to remind ourselves that
not everyone, even those who call themselves Catholic, believe what we do.
We begin then our reflections on sin and its consequences. The Bible takes sin
very seriously. Unlike so many modern writers including theologians and philosophers,
the authors of Sacred Scripture consider sin the only real evil in the world,
and they measure all other suffering or misfortune in their relationship to
sin. Sin appears early in the history of mankind in the first chapters of Genesis,
and it remains as a threat of tragic unity all through the Sacred Writings up
to, and I hav"
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