{"id":9186,"date":"2026-01-22T23:53:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9186"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:53:56","slug":"the-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9186","title":{"rendered":"The Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rohr59.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rohr59.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rohr59.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rohr59-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rohr59-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rohr59-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rohr59-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The<\/em> sin warned against at the very beginning of the Bible is &#8220;to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil&#8221; (Genesis 2:17).  It does not sound like that should be a sin at all, does it?  But the moment I sit on my throne, where I <em>know with certitude<\/em> who the good guys and the bad guys are, then I&#8217;m capable of great evil &#8212; while not thinking of it as evil!  I have eaten of a dangerous tree, according to the Bible.  Don&#8217;t judge, don&#8217;t label, don&#8217;t rush to judgment.  You <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> usually know other people&#8217;s real motives or intentions.  You hardly know your own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Rohr, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/yes_and.html\">Yes, And&#8230;<\/a><\/em>, p. 222<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Canada Geese on lake, South Riding, Virginia, January 20, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sin warned against at the very beginning of the Bible is &#8220;to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil&#8221; (Genesis 2:17). It does not sound like that should be a sin at all, does it? But the moment I sit on my throne, where I know with certitude who the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9626,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions\/9626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}