In his Introduction, Peters goes through classic background theology.\u00a0 The words translated as \u201csin\u201d in the New Testament include \u201cto miss the mark\u201d (in analogy to an archer shooting at a target), \u201cto be without law\u201d, and \u201clawless\u201d.<\/p>\n
Medieval clerics listed seven deadly \u201csins\u201d.\u00a0 They were not really sins, but \u201cdispositions\u201d or \u201cvices\u201d that violated natural reason and divine law: pride, envy, anger, covetousness, sadness, gluttony, and lust.<\/p>\n
\u201cSin\u201d and \u201cevil\u201d are not the same, even though it often seems that way.\u00a0 \u201cSin\u201d has the \u201cfeel\u201d of intentionality.\u00a0 \u201cEvil\u201d has the \u201cfeel\u201d of form.<\/p>\n
A flood may not be a \u201csin\u201d but can be \u201cevil\u201d.<\/p>\n
A personal act, like eating all the sausages after hearing news of a coming famine, may be both \u201csin\u201d and \u201cevil\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Typically, the intentionality of a \u201csin\u201d is not identical to the form of the related \u201cevil\u201d.\u00a0 After all, by eating all the sausages, I have done myself some objective good, while doing others in my household objective harm or \u201cevil\u201d.<\/p>\n
When the intentionality of sin and the form of evil align, we have \u201cradical evil\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cRadical evil\u201d is deliberate harm.\u00a0 \u201cRadical evil\u201d is symbolized by Satan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In his Introduction, Peters goes through classic background theology.\u00a0 The words translated as \u201csin\u201d in the New Testament include \u201cto miss the mark\u201d (in analogy to an archer shooting at a target), \u201cto be without law\u201d, and \u201clawless\u201d. Medieval clerics listed seven deadly \u201csins\u201d.\u00a0 They were not really sins, but \u201cdispositions\u201d or \u201cvices\u201d that violated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n