Church is too often the most risky place to be spiritually honest.

We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said. “The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.

Now please forgive my sin once more and appeal to the LORD your God, that He may remove this death from me.”

When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished female goat as his offering for that sin.

“If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.

If someone incurs guilt in one of these ways, he must confess the sin he has committed,

And he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city.