Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

When the inspired writers call the moral taint of our nature sin, they give evidence in this, that as they define the term, it is applicable to that taint.  Their idea of sin is of something which man has; something which dwells in him; something is separate in ideal from his consciousness not only of his own essence, but from the consciousness of his truer nature, his more real self.  This sin is something that is inborn, which is first to be pardoned, then controlled, and finally annihilated by a new birth, by the grace of God, by the work of the Holy Spirit, by the entrance on the glory of heaven, by the mighty power by which a risen Savior is to raise these vile bodies and make them like His own body. -- C. P. Krauth, *The Conservative Reformation* p. 406