Sin

Contemporary marketing and casual speech have trivialized ‘sin’ into a jokey synonym for a harmless indulgence (‘sinfully delicious chocolate cake’), and broader therapeutic and non-judgmental cultural norms are often actively resistant to guilt-based moral language generally. Romans 1:18-3:20’s weight of real moral guilt before a personal God must be restored explicitly, working against both the trivializing and the guilt-averse cultural currents at once.