Sin has little meaning as an abstract concept. It has meaning only relative to God’s eternal and unchanging standards of holiness as revealed in Scripture, and it consists of rebellion against those standards. Without God’s law, nothing is finally and ultimately wrong—everything is only relative. One man thinks slaughtering Jews is right and proper, another thinks it is evil—who can say which is right? Conscience is inadequate. We need standards and we need rules. Those rules are derived from God, and sin resists them, rejects them, and puts false concepts of good and evil in their place.
It is this sin that underlies all of the various manifestations of evil in the entire history of the human race. Walking in darkness, enslaved to sin, wicked men imagine that their evil deeds are right, and in some cases even pleasing to God. In reality, however, far from pleasing God, they are treasuring up unto themselves wrath “against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; who will render to every man accruing to his deeds…” (Romans 2:5-11).
Joseph Keysor, “Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Bible,” pg.19
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