Matthew's Journal

I think that it's quite difficult for those of us who don't understand - except in an abstract and not personally applicable way - the concept of sin consequently also to understand the concept of redemption. Evil, perhaps, yes, but not sin. "Deliver us from evil", therefore, is understandable, both in terms of 'natural' and 'ethical' evil; but redemption from the consequences of sin, specifically and by definition an offence against a deity of which we have no knowledge as a basis for belief... that's much less obvious.