Comments on: On the Murder in Our Hearts http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2010/05/on-the-murder-in-our-hearts/ A First Things Blog Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:35:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Dan Johnson http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2010/05/on-the-murder-in-our-hearts/#comment-10391 Dan Johnson Wed, 05 May 2010 19:12:56 +0000 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/?p=6409#comment-10391 Very profound. The flip side of what you say is just as interesting, though: murder is not a fundamental sin, in the sense that there is always something more basic that motivates it. It grows out of other sins that we all are unfortunately familiar with: envy, anger, lust, and so on. That's why murder isn't on the traditional list of the seven capital vices. Like your point, this should shock us into realizing that we really aren't that different, at bottom, from the murderer -- we all have the seeds of murder in our hearts. Very profound. The flip side of what you say is just as interesting, though: murder is not a fundamental sin, in the sense that there is always something more basic that motivates it. It grows out of other sins that we all are unfortunately familiar with: envy, anger, lust, and so on. That’s why murder isn’t on the traditional list of the seven capital vices.

Like your point, this should shock us into realizing that we really aren’t that different, at bottom, from the murderer — we all have the seeds of murder in our hearts.

]]> By: Albert http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2010/05/on-the-murder-in-our-hearts/#comment-10340 Albert Tue, 04 May 2010 15:37:35 +0000 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/?p=6409#comment-10340 Well said. Murder to acquire for oneself is the opposite of what our Lord did in pouring out his life in order to make others rich, but our imaginations are trained by the world through advertising to delight in acquisition for our own sake. Well said. Murder to acquire for oneself is the opposite of what our Lord did in pouring out his life in order to make others rich, but our imaginations are trained by the world through advertising to delight in acquisition for our own sake.

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