That being so we can understand why this sense of social sin has been blunted for many of finer conscience. But in another direction, it has been growing keener. Suppose we invert that conception of sin and confess that we are sinners not because of what one man once did but because of what all men now suffer. Suppose we read our sin not in the fault of some an-cester but in the follies and worries of our successors (Suppose we turn the word theological into teleological and consider it in its consequence not its cause).
Let us be ashamed of ourselves, not of Adam's fall but because of the hard problems we have set for our children. Christ said nothing about Adam having caused us to stumble but He said much -about our causing the little ones to stumble.
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