Emphasis Preaching Journal
Soren Kierkegaard (nineteenth century Danish...
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Søren Kierkegaard (nineteenth century Danish theologian) comments on the extreme personal nature of sin, when he writes, "How sin came into the world every man understands by himself alone; if he would learn it from another, he eo ipso misunderstands it." At the center of S-I-N is "I." No one else is responsible for my rebellion against God other than I! Saint Augustine admits that in his Confessions, when he writes about the evil in his life, "But I loved to excuse it, and to accuse I know not what other thing, which was with me, but which I was not.
