Sin

It's a funny thing about sin. It always has a rationalization.
That statement being so anecdotal can stand alone by itself as some sagacious facebook status. Expect this to continue.
Sin has this way of bothering its owner, that it is usually too difficult to face. The usual turn is, "This is a much more complicated situation". And it is true in a fleshly sense. The problem is that is not quite an acceptable excuse. Sin is sin is bad. God's original command to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, (as if there were no original concept of the difference between good and evil or the individual existence of either) was simple. The serpent, in questioning God's rationale behind the command, successfully introduced the idea that complexity, being the reasonable result of contemplation, and moderation, was reason for sin. Although to state it so crudely would not be the ways of the the serpent. In other words, it has always been part of the fabric of sin that the decision to commit it was based on something that could be rationalized as being good. (Ironically, this is not possible without the looming presence of evil. For what are we to call good if we do not know what to call bad?) The indivisible truth of humanness is that the human only ever does that which he or she thinks is beneficial at least to him or her. Therefore the best strategy the devil might have is to somehow convince the human that a given action is what's best at least for him or her. The devil essentially manipulates the human's desire for physical pleasure, beauty, and significance, a.k.a. lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. These innate desires being God-given are not evil in and of themselves, but can be used for evil which can be simply defined as "that which is disobedience or human malice".
I say all this to say this. When you're living in sin, it's always complicated. But if sin is simply disobedience, it's not complicated. Because when you're in sin, you're in sin, you have not the advantage of the objectivity of this post, and so the exit from this state is akin to an enlightenment or perhaps a rescue. (If they are different?)The only pragmatic benefit of this blog post is for counselors or mentors, who in trying to help someone, can benefit from realizing that the first step towards recovery is admitting that you have a problem, and that its really all that simple. I am not being facetious. You can't work with a person who's self-deceived.