Amen! Even many Christians are confused about this because we have downgraded the terrible offense of sin to “mistakes.” I hear this in Christian music and popular preaching all the time.

We just need God’s help to pick us up, dust us off and give us a second chance. We don’t need to be saved. We’re just human after all and imperfect. The doctrine of sin is terribly offensive to us and we will avoid it at all costs in order to maintain the delusion that we’re basically good.

Never mind, as you point out, we’re surrounded by evidence to the contrary.

In the law of God, we are born guilty until proven innocent.

Solo fidelis (through faith alone) is a heresy. Mortal sin kills the soul and makes one deserving of damnation. Only through the grace of The Lord and through the forgiveness of The Lord Christ can we be restored in a state of grace and be accepted into His Kingdom when He decides our time comes.

Part of God's image that we reflect is His free will. We can and do choose whether to accept His will, or deny Him. This is one of His greatest gifts, but since we are only the image, and imperfect at that, we can and often do choose to deny Him. Only through His Grace are we gifted the strength to resist sin and align our will with His.

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