Introduction:

Guilt is a major problem for the human race. It destroys our peace. It destroys our relationships, both with God and man. Guilt has caused untold misery for people since the time of Adam. It is a universal problem. People all over the world suffer from the miseries of guilt.

Secular psychologists and psychiatrists are trained to help people deal with guilt. Their goal is to help their clients dismiss the guilt from their minds. Often with such secular help, the client does, indeed feel somewhat better about himself.

However, that is not the goal of this article.

We do try to help the reader recognize “false guilt” or feelings of guilt that are not the result of wrongdoing. However, other than that our purpose is not to deal with the guilt.

Guilt is our human emotional response to a broken law - or what we perceive as a broken law. Our purpose is not to deal with the emotional guilt response, but to deal with the sin that has caused it. There is no good solution for guilt - but the Bible gives us the solution for sin. When the sin is dealt with, the guilt will disappear.

The world attempts to deal directly with the guilt. But we need to recognize that true guilt is caused by sin, and sin is what we need to deal with. Guilt is an important emotion, because it helps alert us to sin. Guilt plays a large part in conviction of sin, which is necessary to recognize our need of salvation.

Nearly all religions recognize that man has sinned against his God. Yet Christianity is the only religion that actually deals with that sin.

May each reader find peace and freedom from guilt through God’s plan of salvation from sin.

语言

English

作者

Glenn Wenger

出版社

Weaverland Mennonite Publications

主题

和平

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