day no. 15,372: sinsanity

"A man who sins sexually can come to his senses a half an hour later, and often does. But a man who refuses to come to his senses, who refuses to accept an authoritative law/word that governs all lovemaking . . . such a one is seriously attempting to be God at all times, instead of what the sexual sinner is doing, which is forgetting he is not God for half an hour." -- Douglas Wilson, Pomosexuality

All sin is insanity. It is either momentary madness or deep-rooted delirium. It is forgetting the God above while believing the god within. It is madness. Those who come to their senses, repent and ask God to forgive this insanity. But those who never come to their senses expect God to accept their insanity, not as a blunder of hysteria, but as an alternate reality, a  recreation of the world in their own image. This second insanity trumps the first and is of a different species entirely. The flashpoint is still observed in the sexual behaviors of the sinner, but the essence of the sin is different. It originates in believing in one's blindness as opposed to being temporarily unable to see clearly. Both are sins, but the former is foundational as evidenced by its insistence after the fact while the latter is practical as evidenced by the immediate regret and repentance in acting out of insanity. The one attempts to justify its insanity by calling it "order," while the other acknowledges the insanity by repenting of it the moment it becomes clear to them what it was all along.