If you live a life of inactivity and fast food and then die from a heart attack at 35, there is no one to blame but yourself. If you are given a Ferrari and then use it as a farm vehicle to pull a plow, are you going to complain to the manufacturer that it does work? If you buy a box of lightbulbs and try to use them to pound in nails, will you sue the manufacturer for selling an inferior product?
These are all metaphors for our life. God created us to love him, to love one another and to wisely tend to the world around us. If we instead opt for a life contrary to these, who is to blame when life goes wrong? Sin is nothing more than life choices that are contrary to our well-being. We need to stop thinking of sin as a list of naughty things, instead sin needs to be seen as those things that are physically, psychologically and spiritually bad for us.
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