1 John 1:5-10 (2 of 14)
Series: 1 John: Jesus Our Light and Life
Wyman Richardson
1 John 1:5-10
5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Characters who do not believe in the existence of sin turn up time and again in literature. For instance, in The Grapes of Wrath, Preacher Casey tells Tom Joad how he came to deny the existence of sin after battling with guilt over his promiscuous and hypocritical life.
I says, ''Maybe it ain't a sin. Maybe it's just the way folks is...'' Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud...''There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.''
In Flannery O'Connor's story ''Wise Blood,'' Haze Motes expresses a similar sentiment, though in his own unique way.
Haze ducked down a step but the blind man's hand shot out and clamped him around the arm. He said in a fast whisper, ''Repent! Go to the head of the stairs and renounce your sins and distribute these tracts to the people!'' and he thrust a stack of pamphlets into Haze's hand.
Haze jerked his arm away but he only pulled the blind man nearer. ''Listen,'' he said, ''I'm as clean as you are.''
''Fornication and blasphemy and what else?'' the blind man said.
''They ain't nothing but words,'' Haze said. ''If ...
Series: 1 John: Jesus Our Light and Life
Wyman Richardson
1 John 1:5-10
5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Characters who do not believe in the existence of sin turn up time and again in literature. For instance, in The Grapes of Wrath, Preacher Casey tells Tom Joad how he came to deny the existence of sin after battling with guilt over his promiscuous and hypocritical life.
I says, ''Maybe it ain't a sin. Maybe it's just the way folks is...'' Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud...''There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.''
In Flannery O'Connor's story ''Wise Blood,'' Haze Motes expresses a similar sentiment, though in his own unique way.
Haze ducked down a step but the blind man's hand shot out and clamped him around the arm. He said in a fast whisper, ''Repent! Go to the head of the stairs and renounce your sins and distribute these tracts to the people!'' and he thrust a stack of pamphlets into Haze's hand.
Haze jerked his arm away but he only pulled the blind man nearer. ''Listen,'' he said, ''I'm as clean as you are.''
''Fornication and blasphemy and what else?'' the blind man said.
''They ain't nothing but words,'' Haze said. ''If ...
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