Universal Human Accountability

CRITICAL: contemporary therapeutic culture and a strong norm of non-judgmentalism (‘don’t judge,’ ‘live your truth’) are broadly resistant to guilt-based moral language of any kind, and marketing/casual speech has trivialized ‘sin’ into a jokey synonym for harmless indulgence (‘sinfully delicious’). Romans 1:18-3:20’s foundational argument for universal, serious moral guilt before a personal God works against both of these strong contemporary cultural currents at once and must be stated with unusual explicitness and care.