One of the first things doctors learn in medical school is how to
make a proper diagnosis. If there is an error in the
diagnosis, it goes without saying that the faulty diagnosis will
lead to a faulty prescription.
For example, if one has Pneumonia, with persistent fever, coughs and
chills. The fever and cough are merely the symptoms of the disease.
The doctor may casually attend to the problem saying “It’s just a
fever and cough, that’s easily fixed.” So the doctor prescribes
Tylenol for your fever, and cough suppressant, but has not targeted
the underlying phenomena that presents itself as coughs and fever.
The symptoms may seemingly disappear, but with time may recur as the
problem will still not have been addressed. Will you then get well
ultimately? No! In the same manner if we do not make the proper
diagnoses with regard to the problem of sin and sinfulness, how then
can we go about finding the remedy for it? In this lesson we will
look at the issue of sin, its origin, its nature, its character,
what problem it has caused and how it can be overcome. ....
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