# “Not the way it’s supposed to be” by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.

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- Published: 2009-10-06T17:19:40-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“The Bible presents sin by way of major concepts, principally lawlessness and faithlessness,
expressed in an array of images: sin is the missing of a target, a wandering from
the path, a straying from the fold. Sin is a hard heart and a stiff neck. Sin is
blindness and deafness. It is both the overstepping of a line and the failure to
reach it—both transgression and shortcoming.

Sin is a beast crouching at the door. In sin, people attack or evade or neglect 
their divine calling. These and other images suggest deviance: even when it is familiar,
sin is never normal. Sin is disruption of created harmony and then resistance to
divine restoration of that harmony. Above all, sin disrupts and resists the vital
human relation to God.”

–Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., _[Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802842186?tag=toletaupanre-20)_
[ ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802842186?tag=toletaupanre-20)(Grand Rapids, MI: 
Eerdmans, 1995), 5.

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