Theocentric sin - 21 July 2009 |
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Ps 51:4 occasionally raises an eyebrow, because it seems odd that after the Bathsheba incident David should say to God, ‘against you, you only, have I sinned’. Yet this isn’t the only time in the Bible that God is identified as the one against whom person-to-person sin is ultimately directed.
When Potiphar’s wife keeps pestering Joseph to sleep with her, he replies at length about the privilege he enjoys at the hand of his Egyptian master. The obvious implication being that it would be an outrage to repay Potiphar’s kindness with such treachery (Gen 39:8-9). Yet at the climax of Joseph’s reply, his words echo David’s concern not to sin against the Lord: ‘how then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?’
Posted by Steve Jeffery · Topics: Bible, Minister's Blog, Theology