Sin is not a matter of good vs. evil, let alone of disobedience. It is a matter of distorting and warping things. Greed is a warped expression of the longing for a life fully lived. Violence is a distorted search for freedom from that which burdens us: we project it onto others, and try to destroy it in them. Idolatry is the quest for security and comfort gone awry.
It would be more accurate, therefore, to speak not of a fallen world but of a warped world. Our sins are but doomed attempts at obtaining love, peace, and security from things that can't provide. So much harm done, not because we're evil but out of simple stupidity. We're too dense to see.
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