As long as we treat
sin as a minor category, we will always question the atoning death of the
God-man to solve our problem. Show me a
person who questions the incarnation and you have shown me a person who takes
the categories of sin and God's holiness rather lightly…..The second step is to
belittle God. The biblical picture of
God banishing Adam and Eve from Eden for eating a piece of forbidden fruit is
replaced with a God who will basically put up with anything. He is a God more interested in sincerity than
holiness, content to tolerate anything we do because he has a love affair with
human free will.
….Once we have
neutered God of the attribute of his holy wrath and toned down talk of sin by
minimizing its dastardly effects - fashioning ourselves as good people who
occasionally err - we have effectively removed the requirement for atonement. It is then a short step to questioning the
incarnation. Why insist on God becoming
human and solving a problem we are quite capable of solving ourselves? The modern propensity to downplay the divinity of Jesus is tied to a
watered-down version of what constitutes sin, and a wishy-washy portrayal of a
God too tolerant and friendly to worry about it.
Victor Kuligin
Quote from his book:
The Language of Salvation: Discovering the Riches of What it Means to Be Saved
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