“Thus the claim that the Bible is an 'impressive uniformity' is in one sense trivial and in another sense wrong.”
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/apologetics.html#q1
[My friend relates going to the church in question for a period of months to test it out. The biblical account of the ministry of Jesus and the history of the Jewish people were explained to him. He decided to pray to God for forgiveness, because he had, in his own description, done a good deal of sinning up to that point.]
It sounds like you felt very guilty about something—maybe something particular, or maybe just a feeling of guilt in general. But this seems more like a psychological matter than a theological one—though it is a psychological matter that Christian groups exploit in order to gain influence.
Listen:
“Before we present the further consequences of this condition, we want to avow that man has arrived at this condition not through his ‘guilt’ and ‘sin,’ but rather through a series of errors of reason, that if his nature seemed dark and hateful to him to that degree, it was the fault of the mirror, and that that mirror was his creation, the very imperfect creation of human imagination and powers of judgment.”
http://www.geocities.com/thenietzschechannel/human3.htm
In my articles “The Origin of Sin” and “Everything is Perfect” [not yet available online, though available at the time through the school newspaper] I lay out the historical development of this error in reasoning and why it is a theological error, respectively.
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