By Schubert Ogden
On Sin
The real sin of human beings is that they take their wills, their lives, into their own hands, seek to secure themselves, and thus are self-confident, "boasting." Thus the primal sin of the heathen was that they did not understand their creatureliness and did not honor God (Rom 1:20 f.). The offense of the Gnostics is that they set up their own wisdom and despise the foolishness of preaching the cross that is the wisdom of God (1 Cor 1:18-31). The sin of the Jews is that they want to set up their "own righteousness" (Rom 10:3 f.; Phil 3:9) and "boast" before God (Rom 2:23 f.; 3:27; 4:2).
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