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2. Inadequate conceptions of sin

They say they no longer had the sense of sin, which is partly true. There's no sense of sin to the extent that there is no sense of God But even more upstream, there is no sense of shame because there is not enough sense of responsibility.
Our culture tends to hide the individual bonds of solidarity that bind their choices good and bad to the fate of himself and others. Political ideologies tend to persuade individuals and groups that the fault is always of others. It promises more and more and you do not have the courage to appeal to individual responsibility towards the general good. In a culture of non-responsibility, the predominantly legalistic conception of sin, handed down from catechesis than once, it loses all meaning and ends up falling. In the legalistic conception of sin is seen essentially as disobedience to God's law, so as a refusal to submit to his rule. In a world like ours where it enhances the freedom, obedience is no longer considered a virtue and thus disobey is not considered a bad thing, but a form of emancipation that makes man free, and gives him back his dignity. ...

the legalistic conception of sin, the violation of divine command offends our God and creates a debt against him: the debt of those who offend another and needs repair, or who has committed a crime and must be punished. Justice requires that the man should pay all his debt and expiate his guilt. But Christ has already paid for everyone. Just repent and acknowledge their debt because they shall be forgiven.
Alongside this legalistic conception of sin there is another - also inadequate - we call fatalistic. Sin would reduce the lag that exists and will always exist between the needs of God's holiness and insuperable limits of man, that this is in an incurable situation in respect of God's plan
Since this situation is insurmountable it is for God the opportunity to disclose all his mercy. According to this concept of sin, God does not take into account the sins of man, but simply remove his gaze from the hopeless misery of man. Man should only rely blindly on this without worrying too much mercy for his sins, because God will save him, although he remains a sinner.
This conception of sin is not the true Christian vision of the reality of sin. If sin is something so insignificant, you could not understand why Christ died on the cross to save us from sin.
Sin is disobedience to God, about God and God strikes But the man to understand the terrible seriousness of sin must begin to consider the reality of his human side, realizing that sin is an evil man.

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