Relegation of SIN

A sin-loving world has relegated the word “sin” to a mere figure of speech. In some sports, transgressors are sent to the “sin bin” and get out after ten minutes. Tourists get their heart’s desire with guilt-free abandonment in “sin city,” because what they do in Vegas stays in Vegas. Language has even evolved to further the belief that it’s no big deal to violate the voice of conscience. A brothel is now an “escort service,” a strip club is a respectable “gentlemen’s club,” adultery is an “affair,” fornication is “sleeping” together, and homosexuality is a “gay” lifestyle. They may call sin what they will, but its wage hasn’t changed. It’s still death, and its full payment will be eternal damnation in a terrible place called Hell. Sin is more serious than a heart attack. The attempt to soften it is the fruit of idolatry, and that ugly tree found its root in the contemporary pulpits of compromise.--- Ray Comfort