It seemed very unfair for God to judge us of our sins because we are born sinners. That is who we are. That is what we do. We sin! Duh? Now, is it any fault of mine that I am born a sinner? No.
Mr Chin decided to avoid this issue during cell group because he wanted to us to focus on the intended lesson. It was good pedagogy. However, coincidentally or not, I chanced upon my summary of C.S. Lewis' book last night while browsing through my blog history.
In his book 'The Problem of Pain', Lewis addressed this issue relating to God's fairness - the notion of shifting all guilt to Adam. These are his thoughts:
Regarding sin, we might say "Yes: we behave like vermin, but then that is because we are vermin. And that, at any rate, is not our fault." But the fact that we are vermin, so far from being felt as an excuse, is a greater shame and grief to us than any of the particular acts which it leads us to commit.
Lewis used an example of a very badly brought up boy being introduced into a decent family. The family rightly remind themselves that it is 'not his own fault, but they also ought to hate his behaviour and seek to correct him.
Hell, in Lewis' opinion, is probably be a state of ourselves, instead of a geographical location.
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