| The Seven Deadly Sins: A Survival Guide
Rebecca DeYoung, Professor of Philosophy
Faith Alive Christian Resources
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 We don’t often use the language of virtues and vices anymore. But many early Christians used virtue
and vice talk to describe the process the apostle Paul talks about in his letter to the Colossians:
Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly. . . . These are the ways you also once followed,
when you were living that life. But now you must get rid of all such things . . . seeing that you
have stripped off the old self with its practices and have clothed yourselves with the new self,
which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its Creator (Col. 3:5, 7-10).
In this passage, Paul tells Christian believers that faith is supposed to change us. To believe is to
follow the way of Christ. And to follow means taking off your old, sinful nature, with its habits of
thought and behavior, and become someone new. Put on your new identity in Christ, he says, with
its renewed and godly habits of thought and behavior. Let the Spirit transform you.
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Press release about this book from Calvin College
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