in the fall and in all the theology built upon it by the
theologians from St. Paul onward. Man was not made perfect
and then marred; his evolution is still proceeding.

So here again it is utterly impossible for the consistent evolutionist to
accept the Bible doctrine of the fall of man.

3. The logic of evolution destroys the doctrine of =sin=.

The Bible makes man's fall deliberate and wilful, and his continued
attitude of sinful enmity against God, in spite of all God's offered power
to change it into love, one of excuseless lawlessness and rebellion.

This makes man entirely responsible for his sin and accountable to God for
everything sin does in his life. And so the Bible says:

Every one shall give account of himself to God.

And those who go out of this life in the unconfessed and therefore
unforgiven sin of rejecting God's mercy in Christ shall "go away into
everlasting punishment," where there will be "weeping and gnashing of
teeth."

But to the evolutionary philosophy, sin cannot be "exceeding sinful," for
it is either inherent in the process of evolution, or, at worst, but an
unfortunate slip in the working out of that process, if, indeed, it is not
even a mark of budding virtue.

John Fiske says:

Theology has much to say about original sin. This original
sin is neither more nor less than the brute inheritance that
every man carries with him.

Rev. Dwight Bradley, a Cleveland, Ohio, pastor, says:

There is no escape for intelligent people today from the
acceptance of the law of evolution.... It follows that what
we call evil [sin] is the remains of a lower form of life....
We are in the midst of the slow process of ridding ourselves
of our animal inheritance.

And Dr. Shailer Mathews follows the evolutionary philosophy to its logical
and necessary end when he says:

But for men who think of God as dynamically imminent in an
infinite universe, who think of man's relation to Him as
determined not by statutory but by cosmic law, who regard sin
and righteousness alike as the working out of the fundamental
forces of life itself, the conception of God as King and of
man as condemned or acquitted subject is but a figure of
speech.

Such a doctrine as this absolutely and forever destroys man's
responsibility for sin. For if sin is what Dr. Mathews suggests it
is,--"the working out of the fundamental forces of life itself,"--t