A netfriend wrote:

Maybe you could give me your theory on how “social justice” addresses sin? Isn’t sin the ultimate cause of pain?

Hi my friend:

Start with my summary of CSLewis The Problem of Pain http://jmm.org.au/articles/1879.htm

Then look at this article on suffering http://jmm.org.au/articles/4810.htm

And this one: How to Know the Lord – http://jmm.org.au/articles/579.htm

Pharisees ancient and modern / Fundamentalists/conservatives begin ‘The Gospel’ with ‘The Fact of Sin’

Jesus begins with “I do not condemn you”; the Great Commandment doesn’t mention sin; John 3:16 doesn’t begin there either…

Orthodox Christians (like you and me) believe in the love of God and the fact of sin – in that order, not the reverse order…

Of course some specific sins (you know Jesus’ answer to this re the blind man) are caused by sin, some aren’t; probably in a cosmic sense disorder everywhere is somehow a concomitant of creation’s fallenness (a la Paul).

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Shalom!

Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/