Faith and Hope Permeated with Love (2)

The natural man still expects to be like God. The natural man still expects to be like God. Such is the power of the lie sown in his soul in paradise that all his children are born with the folly in their hearts and minds that they can become "as god, knowing good and evil." This is man's basic sin. All the other sins which he commits are the result and fruit of his unending attempt to be god. And it is not simply an expectation which he has for the distant future. The individual sinner may...